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Discussion

Over coffee, Bob said that he really liked this chapter. This material was full of cases of very concrete procedures for doing useful things. I like that.

Discussion

Over coffee, Bob said that he really liked this chapter. This material was full of cases of very concrete procedures for doing useful things. I like that. Yolanda offered a somewhat different perspective On the other hand, this last procedure only seems to work with interval orders and we still don't have a clue as to how to find the width of a poset in the general case. This might be very difficultlike the graph coloring problems discussed in the last chapter. Dave weighed in with Somehow I think there's going to be a fairly efficient process that works for all posets. We may not have all the tools yet, but let's wait a bit.

Not much was said for a while and after a pause, Carlos ventured that there were probably a lot of combinatorial problems for posets that had analogous versions for graphs and in those cases, the poset version would be a bit more complicated, sometime a little bit and sometimes a very big bit. Zori was quiet but she was thinking. These poset structures might even be useful, as she could imagine many settings in which a linear order was impossible or impractical. Maybe there were ways here to earn a few dollars.

Haddaad Ma jiro xisaabis oo ku nool midkan, laakiin qaybaha ka mid ah waa la xisaabi karaa. Ku raaxayso mid ka hooseeya, ama ku qor adiga kuu gaar ah.

Ku hay shaqadaada

A xisaab bilaash ah oo ku daray qoraalada waxbarasho kasta, diiwaanka waxa aad dhamaatay, dhibaatooyinka aad xal u tahay meel kaliya, iyo macallinka aad weydiisan kartaa oo ku saabsan bogga. Xisaabta oo keliya waa u furan yahay qof kasta, la diiwaan geliyey ama aan.

Ku soo biir Ku soo gal

Calaamadaha la isticmaalay halkan

Taab calaamad kasta oo loogu talagalay qeexidda buuxda, sawir, iyo waxa xarfaha oo dhan ka mid ah ka dhigan tahay.

Su'aalaha dadku waydiiyaan

Permutation or combination?

Ask whether order matters. A lock code is a permutation (order matters); a hand of cards is a combination (it does not).

What is a graph in this sense?

Dots (vertices) joined by lines (edges), not a plot. Road maps, social networks and molecules are graphs; questions like "is there a route" and "how few colours" are graph theory.

Qaybaha ee boggaan waxaa la beddelay ka Keller & Trotter, Applied Combinatorics (CC BY-SA 4.0). Condensed iyo dib-oo halkan lagu sharaxay; khaladaadka waa inoo.

In ka badan Combinatorics & Graph Theory