SSH and Telnet [was Re: [Ma-linux] Two Sun Announcements]

Rob Sherwood capveg at cs.umd.edu
Wed Feb 21 12:51:50 EST 2007


On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 12:03:58AM -0500, Joseph S D Yao wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 07:34:12PM -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> ...
> > Not to mention that the lock is also a key, and the key is also a lock. 
> > Or is that what you were saying?
> ...
> 
> 
> A lot of analogies are reversible in that way.  There's a mathematical
> term for that kind of duality, I don't remember it right now.

heh... "duality" is the term used significantly in the CS literature.
A lot of times, you talk about the "dual" of a problem.

- Rob
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