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Tara2 Posted 5 years ago
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Is 'many' like 'a lot of'? Which usage of 'many' is used here?

Third, we do not preclude the possibility of composing a countably infinite collection of automata, but we do require in this case that each action must be an action of only finitely many of the component automata. This latter restriction is needed because otherwise Theorem 8.3 (for example) fails.

Lynch's Distributed Algorithms

  

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Tara2 Is 'many' like 'a lot of'? Usually, but not in this quotation you've posted. Tara2 an action of only finitely many of the component automata an action of only a finite number of the component automata It's a usage of 'many' which is less often seen.

  • Tara2 Is 'many' like 'a lot of'?
  • Usually, but not in this quotation you've posted.
  • Tara2 an action of only finitely many of the component automata an action of only a finite number of the component automata It's a usage of 'many' which is less often seen.
  • CJ
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Tara2Is 'many' like 'a lot of'?

Usually, but not in this quotation you've posted.

Tara2an action of only finitely many of the component automata

an action of only a finite number of the component automata


It's a usage of 'many' which is less often seen.

CJ

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