On 6/6/21 9:14 AM, Irit Katriel via Python-Dev wrote: > On 6 Jun 2021, at 16:58, Andrei Kulakov wrote:
>> In Math / CompSci there is a definition that almost exactly matches this: Exact Cover - >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exact_cover >> >> The difference is that, IIRC, solving the problem is finding and removing all subsets that are unneeded to create an >> exact cover, so it's kind of arriving at it from a different direction, but 'exact cover' definition itself is a good >> match. > > I’m not sure it’s a quite the same - it doesn’t require that the sets in the cover have cardinality 1, which I think > Ethan does. Well, I'm not sure what "cardinality 1" means, so I don't know if I do or not. :) -- ~Ethan~ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/BMCG6MA3HKYAQC4JARJFXZDOZGCSIPMM/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/