Re: JAVA MathSET API

From:
Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 12 Mar 2014 18:04:45 -0700 (PDT)
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Jeff Higgins wrote:

Martin Gregorie wrote:

Kai wrote:

Hello all,
I want to implement a mathematical set of strings using the JAVA API
MathSET.
Is there anything you can suggest for this implementation.


'java.util.Set'.
 

What do you mean by 'a mathematical set of strings' - a set of strings
containing mathematical expressions that can be evaluated once values
have been supplied for all variables?

If so, I think something like Coco/R or Yacc/M may come in quite useful...


I think he means a Set implementation with
union,


http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Set.html#addAll(java.util.Collection)

intersection,


http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Set.html#removeAll(java.util.Collection)

complement,


Set<Foo> universal = new HashSet<>();
....
Set<Foo> example = ...
Set<Foo> complement = universal.removeAll(example);

product, etc. It's somewhat surprising how many


Produce a Set<Foo, Foo> from two sets via an algorithm of your own devise.

x.x.x.MathSet implementations turn up on Goo'gle.


So, basically, there's nothing to do except implement a "universal" set and a
'product(Set<Foo> x,y -> Set<Foo,Foo>)' (loose syntax here).

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