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- From: west@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Douglas West)
- Subject: Re: Counting Families of Subsets
- References: <1992Nov15.152951.44802@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 22:08:50 GMT
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- kinnersley@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bill Kinnersley) writes:
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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.
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- The log base 2 is asymptotic to n choose n/2.
- See D.J. Kleitman and G. Markowsky, On Dedekind's problem: the number of
- monotone Boolean functions II, Transactions AMS 45(1974), 373-389.
-