The closure of Hampshire College means the Five College consortium will have only four colleges…but do we have a name for that reduction? Yes, since 2008, when @schrisomalis.bsky.social (in another context) coined «quinquemation»!
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In news from the burgeoning field of the anthropology of numbers, the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne has decided that the pentathlon will now comprise only four distinct events, combini…
