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Putnam 1968 A3

  • Session A

Let SS be a finite set and PP the set of all subsets of SS . Show that one can label the elements of PP as AiA_i such that (1) A1=∅A_1 =\emptyset . (2) For each n≥1n\geq1 we either have An−1⊂AnA_{n-1}\subset A_{n} and ∣An∖An−1∣=1|A_{n} \setminus A_{n-1}|=1 or An⊂An−1A_{n}\subset A_{n-1} and ∣An−1∖An∣=1.|A_{n-1} \setminus A_{n}|=1.

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