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- From: kinnersley@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bill Kinnersley)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Counting Families of Subsets
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.152951.44802@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 21:29:50 GMT
- Article-I.D.: kuhub.1992Nov15.152951.44802
- Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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- Take a base set S with N elements. There are 2^N subsets of S.
- I want to consider families of these subsets. All together there
- are 2^{2^N} such families, but I want to impose a condition.
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- Let F be a family such that all elements of F are distinct subsets,
- and no element of F is a subset of another.
-
- How many families like this are there, for given N?
-
- If you call the number K(N), then the first few values are:
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- N K
-
- 0 1
- 1 2
- 2 5
- 3 19
- 4 167
-
- Can you tell me even the order of magnitude for K(N)? It appears to be
- much less than 2^{2^N}.
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- --
- --Bill Kinnersley
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