Timeline for Ordering of tuples equivalent to mapping to R?
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| Jun 12, 2011 at 16:24 | comment | added | Richard Rast | The third paragraph of this answer still answers your question, since one possible utility ordering would be the lexicographic one, and even a quite small subspace of the set of tuples can't be embedded into $\mathbb{R}$. It is possible that <i>some</i> orderings of the tuples do embed into $\mathbb{R}$, but this is in some sense the most natural, and can't work. | |
| Dec 10, 2009 at 23:45 | comment | added | Casebash | I've clarified the question | |
| Dec 7, 2009 at 5:49 | history | edited | David Eppstein | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Dec 7, 2009 at 5:40 | history | answered | David Eppstein | CC BY-SA 2.5 |