> On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 11:55:41AM +0100, Peter McEvoy wrote:
> > Having a bit of a brain melt this morning and thought I'd mail ilug with
> > this question considering the number of Comp-Sci and Math heads that are
on
> > this list (even though this question is totally non-computing related
(at
> > least, not immediatley related))
> >
> > What is the term used in set theory/topology to describe the way subsets
> > divide up a domain in such a way that the sum of the subsets is the
domain,
> > but no two subsets intersect?
> >
> > It's on the tip of my tounge, but I can't quite remember it...
>> Disjoint?
Hey, disjoint ain't big enough for the two uv us...
FP
(meaning, IIRC disjoint means that the intersection of the sets is {} but
doesn't necessarily imply that the union of the two sets covers the whole
domain.)
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