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масив? I had a similar experience wondering what this thing is when I first heard this. I wonder what the etymology is.

Python dicts seem to be „асоциативен масив“ but „речник“ is also acceptable, so at least that's understandable.




Precisely. I truly have no idea how it's made it's way into CS, but I suspect it has to do with:

> Голямо пространство, заето от еднородни предмети. Горски масиви.


It's probably from the Russian CS.


Students from different countries are asked to write an essay on elephants.

An English student: "Elephants and their import for the industrial production"

A French student: "Elephants and their sexual life"

A German student: "Elephants as the precursors of tanks"

A Soviet student: "The USSR: the country where elephants originally came from"

A Bulgarian student: "Bulgarian elephant, the younger brother of the Soviet elephant".




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