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| Apr 16, 2013 at 19:53 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | If you are dealing with classification problems, it is nice to reverse the process, and associate the result with the data P, n, and the recipe for making the result. For sake of clarity, I like such associations to call out the recipe as well as the data when stating such in a theorem. Gerhard "Eats Different Things Different Days" Paseman, 2013.04.16 | |
| Apr 16, 2013 at 19:48 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | As an example, suppose you have to produce a "power" of a poset. This will be a partially ordered set where one of the "inputs" is a small poset P, say a chain of 7 elements. A piece of data needed is the degree of power, say n which I will set to 6 for this example. It is reasonable to think of P as input and n as data and that the result will have 117649 elements. However, you use P as a template and instead "manufacture" the product out of thin air, so it is reasonable to think of P and n as data used in the construction. Gerhard "Likes Dealing With Few Primes" Paseman, 2013.04.16 | |
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| Apr 15, 2013 at 4:19 | history | answered | Gerhard Paseman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |