Talk:Set of real numbers: Difference between revisions
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:::::::: I am not sure I understand your question, but I was drawing a distinction between sequences of intervals and sets of intervals. My point was that intervals seem to me to be more tractable when treated as members of sequences than when treated as members of sets. But, yes, if you ask for the ability to determine if a set is equal to the empty set then the set implementation I was using would not be adequate. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 19:45, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
:::::::: Added a requirement to check if set is empty. It really should have gone into the mandetory part, but that would invalidate the python example, which is probably not fair for now. --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 20:53, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
::::::::: Ok, that gets it closer to the sort of data I would need, but it's still not really relevant. The issue is: to test for empty set I need a list of all the potential inflection points, but I do not care if they are currently valid interval bounds, so it was still simpler to just ignore the set data structures and use special case logic for computing lengths.
::::::::: (Also, this sub-task could use some required examples, but I made some up instead.) --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 00:56, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
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