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Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 10:59:05 -0600
To: "Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [lojban] Final clubs - the final solution
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1.  Call a set, s,  of clubs preclusive if being a member of any one 
of the clubs in s precludes being a member of any other club in s.

2.  Call a set, m, of clubs maximally preclusive if it is preclusive 
and every proper superset of of m is not preclusive.

3. Call a set, f, of clubs the set of final clubs if f is the largest 
set of maximally preclusive clubs.

4. Call a club, c, a final club iff it is a member of f.

co'o mi'e stivn

Steven Belknap, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Medicine
University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria