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- From: dbc@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bryan Carpenter)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: too intuitive to prove
- Message-ID: <13101@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: 13 Oct 92 16:35:11 GMT
- References: <1992Oct8.053608.24694@u.washington.edu>
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- In <1992Oct8.053608.24694@u.washington.edu> menasian@milton.u.washington.edu (Gregor Menasian) writes:
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- >A group of us are working on a problem that is far too obvious for us to
- >grasp. We need to prove, either formally or informally, that a relaion R
- >on a set A is symmetric if and only R=R^(-1)
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- >We're looking for either ideas to start us off or a complete proof.
- >(a complete proof is, of course, perfered)
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- >Our biggest problem is that the proof must be formal.
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- ``R symmetric'' defined by a R b <=> b R a, and ``R^-1'' defined by
- a R^-1 b <=> b R a, seem like good starting points.
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- >Thanks,
- >We call our selves the mutants.
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- Bryan
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