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0 pointsgodelmachine5y ago0 comments

Just curious to understand what does Exhibit n + 1 mean? Would you kindly explain?

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He probably means that something with similar implications has happened a lot of times already and we should have already learned the lesson

rhn_mk15y ago

"exhibit" is "example". "n" examples occured before, the "1" is this new one. Hence we have "n + 1" examples already, and the newest one can be called "exhibit n + 1".

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trosi5y ago

He probably means that something with similar implications has happened a lot of times already and we should have already learned the lesson

rhn_mk15y ago

"exhibit" is "example". "n" examples occured before, the "1" is this new one. Hence we have "n + 1" examples already, and the newest one can be called "exhibit n + 1".

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