Confetti the end of the 19th century, using symbolic shreds of coloured paper rather than real sweets. Confetti Confetti are small pieces or streamers of paper, mylar, or metallic material which are usually thrown at celebrations, especially parades and weddings. The origins are from the Latin "confectum", with "confetti" the plural of Italian "confetto", small sweet. Modern paper confetti trace back to symbolic rituals of tossing grains and sweets during special occasions, traditional for numerous cultures throughout history as an ancient custom dating back to pagan times, but adapted from sweets and grains to paper through the centuries. Confetti are made
Small Latin squares and quasigroups Small Latin squares and quasigroups Below the Latin squares and quasigroups of some small orders (the side length of the square, or the number of elements of the quasigroup) are considered. For order 1 there is 1 Latin square with symbol a and 1 quasigroup with underlying set {a}; it is a group, the trivial group. For order 2 there are 2 Latin squares with symbols a and b: They differ only by labelling, i.e., by a permutation of a and b. Thus there is only one isotopy class. Each can be taken as a multiplication table with border row