He said, "People have misunderstood that it's a collection of dots, not a connecting of the dots.
Otherwise it risks becoming a low-skill, low-wage backwater, an overlooked collection of dots in the corner of the map of Asia.
That is, how can you take a collection of dots and group them into seven sets with three dots in each set (dots can be in more than one set) in a way that makes it impossible, once you color each of the dots either red or blue, to avoid a monochromatic set?
What to make of a collection of dots in the Pacific Ocean whose crescent-shaped main island is so slender that a boy can stand in the lagoon on one coast and throw a baseball clear across into the shimmering turquoise sea on the other?
More than a collection of dot-coms, this index includes e-commerce software makers, service providers and infrastructure builders with a market cap of at least $1 billion.
GemConnect.com, a company run by a collection of dot-commers from places like Ebay, as well as experts from the gem industry, hooks up global buyers and sellers of diamonds, gemstones and jewelry.
Researchers often study these kinds of signals using something called a point-light figure, a collection of dots arranged in a human form.
The present work offers a more detailed account of these investigations following our first preliminary conference report, continuing a study of elementary tasks, such as counting dots, where one knows independently the expected value because the measurement object (collection of dots) is prepared in advance.
This illustrates the passage in the above quotation which says "The scope of the bracket indicated by any collection of dots extends backwards or forwards beyond any smaller number of dots, or any equal number from a group of less force, until we reach either the end of the asserted proposition or a greater number of dots or an equal number belonging to a group of equal or superior force".
The image is really just composed of dots of cyan, yellow, magenta, and black inks but when you zoom out and look at the collection of dots, an image appears.
Durgin himself considers a large collection of dots and a copy of it from which, at random, many dots are removed.
