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- From: cxu@milton.u.washington.edu (Chongguang Xu)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Combinatorics Problem (probably easy)
- Message-ID: <1992Oct15.232815.26763@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 15 Oct 92 23:28:15 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Oct15.232815.26763
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- I have a conjecture about a combinatorics question which I have been
- unable to prove. I'm hoping someone on the net knows the answer or
- can give me a reference.
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- Given a set S of k elements, let A be the largest family of subsets of S
- such that for every two elements a and b of A, b is not a substet of a.
- My conjecture is that the cardinality of A is C(k, [k/2]), where C(p,q)
- is the binomial coefficient, and [c] is the floor of c. I can prove that
- the cardinality of A is at least that big, but I can't prove it can't
- be bigger.
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- Thanks in advance,
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- Chongguang Xu
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