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mathhobbit ([personal profile] mathhobbit) wrote2011-12-09 12:08 pm
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Word of the Day

Iteration

A student of mine had never seen this word.  Also, it seems oddly multipurpose:

The process failed during the third iteration.
The best methods of computing Fibonacci numbers involve iteration.

In the first sentence it's a singular noun.  What's it doing in the second example?