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by wtetzner 5042 days ago
"Idempotence is the property of certain operations in mathematics and computer science, that they can be applied multiple times without changing the result beyond the initial application."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idempotence

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What is the definition of "result". My point is that result in this case is a "change of state" vs "no change in state".
the result of multiple log out attempts will be "attemptor will be logged out."