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The reverse-delete algorithm in graph theory used to obtain a minimum spanning tree from a given connected, edge-weighed graph. If the graph is disconnected, this algorithm will find a minimum spanning tree for each disconnected part of the graph. The set of these minimum spanning trees is called a minimum spanning forest, which consists of every vertex in the graph.

And this is nothing compared with what goes on in Malta

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Apr 30th, 2007 at 05:44:15 PM EST
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Mead also had an exceptionally close relationship with Ruth Benedict. Mead's daughter Catherine, in her memoir of her parents 'With a Daughter's Eye', implies that the relationship between Benedict and Mead may have contained an erotic element (see also Lapsley 1999). While Margaret Mead never identified herself as lesbian, the details of her relationship with Benedict have led others to identify her thus; in her writings she proposed that it is to be expected that individuals' sexual orientation may change throughout their lives.

And this is nothing compared with what goes on in Malta

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Apr 30th, 2007 at 05:47:34 PM EST
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you are beginning to see the rhetorical possibilties. There does indeed seem to be a 5th type of discourse interchange, and that is absurdity.

Absurdity is a refusal to accept logic. But it has a very strict rhetorical purpose: to cause the brain of the recipient to jump out of the stuck groove that they are in, in the hope of reframing the argument in favour of the sender.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Apr 30th, 2007 at 05:54:48 PM EST
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And this is nothing compared to what goes on in Malta.

Bush is a symptom, not the disease.
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Apr 30th, 2007 at 06:36:45 PM EST
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The use of addition in:
G -> H
G -> (H ^ J)
is called "improper" because the letter that is added is not added to the whole line.  It turns out, however, that even though the addition rule is not correctly applied, the inference is still valid.  Hence, this inference is not called "invalid," as the others are.  As for the last example, a DeMorgans Rule will be presented that will allow us to remove parentheses preceeded by negation signs.  But even after the parentheses have been removed, the inference remains valid.

And this is nothing compared to what goes on in Malta.

by ATinNM on Mon Apr 30th, 2007 at 08:29:21 PM EST
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You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Tue May 1st, 2007 at 03:59:15 AM EST
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