In you initial email, what is n? Some real number between zero and one?

> On 2 May 2018, at 8:37 am, Abroży Nieprzełoży 
> <abrozynieprzelozy314...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I think Barry mean that you can represent the (x,y) pair as a single
> number like (max(X)-min(X))*(Y-min(Y))+X-min(X) or so, but I don't see
> how it would be helpful.
> 
> 2018-05-02 0:20 GMT+02:00, Roman Fleysher:
>> Dear Barry,
>> 
>> The statement about the square is not obvious to me. The requirements on
>> counts in x and y are different.
>> 
>> I also imagine answer could be two or several non-overlapping  "rectangles".
>> "Rectangles" will not be densely filled with dots, they might have empty
>> spots either because the points were never on the list or were eliminated.
>> 
>> Roman
>> 
>> ________________________________________
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>> of Barry Smith [smith.bar...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2018 6:12 PM
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>> Subject: Re: [sqlite] probably recursive?
>> 
>> Well those constraints simplify your problem.
>> 
>> In the resultant dataset, the largest X and Y values will be equal, and the
>> largest X will have and entry for every coordinate from (X, 1) to (X, X).
>> Likewise the largest Y will have an entry for every coordinate from (1, Y)
>> to (Y, Y). Basically you'll have two lines from the axes, drawing a square.
>> All points outside that square will be culled, all points on and inside the
>> square will be kept.
>> 
>> Since you know that, you now have a one dimensional problem to solve. It
>> still seems a little recursive to me, but it should be easier because you
>> only need to find a single number (which you can then plug into a delete
>> statement).
>> 
>> If my statement about the square is not obvious to prove in your head I can
>> try write a proof for that but I'm not much good at proofs.
>> 
>>> On 2 May 2018, at 7:27 am, Roman Fleysher
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Pairs (x,y) do not repeat.
>>> 
>>> Actual x and y are positive integers, but I do not see how being positive
>>> can be relevant. Integer is important for sorting/comparison.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Roman
>>> 
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: sqlite-users [sqlite-users-boun...@mailinglists.sqlite.org] on
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>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2018 5:23 PM
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>>> Subject: Re: [sqlite] probably recursive?
>>> 
>>> Is there a uniqueness constraint on your initial data? Can the same
>>> coordinate be listed multiple times?
>>> 
>>> Is there a requirement that X > 0 and Y > 0?
>>> 
>>>>> On 2 May 2018, at 3:35 am, Simon Slavin  wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 1 May 2018, at 6:28pm, Simon Slavin  wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I just realised that
>>>> 
>>>> That was intended to be personal email.  Apologies, everyone.
>>>> 
>>>> Simon.
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