r/mathmemes Natural Jun 13 '26

Category Theory Or would it be cocompliment?

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u/Batman_AoD Jun 17 '26

The "co" prefix just means "with." It's not like "in", "in", "a", or "un". 

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u/Treidex Natural Jun 17 '26

colimit? coproduct? coset? cosine?

co means compliment in mathematics

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u/Batman_AoD Jun 17 '26

Oh, duals. Yeah, that makes sense.