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Re:Fast Fibonacci numbers using Monoids by tantalor on Thursday April 23, 2020 @10:41AM (#22956539)
No introduction necessary, monads are just monoids in the category of endofunctors.
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Re:Fast Fibonacci numbers using Monoids by OscarCunningham on Thursday April 23, 2020 @12:07PM (#22957443)
Wrong way around. They want to know what monoids are. So you have to tell them that monoids are just modules of the list monad. ;-)
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Re:Fast Fibonacci numbers using Monoids by shigeo on Thursday April 23, 2020 @12:42PM (#22957883)
Or that a monoid is merely a category with exactly one object.
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