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Re: Meyer (6.044)

gdt@LCS.MIT.EDU (gdt@LCS.MIT.EDU)
Mon Oct 24 23:33:49 1988

Meyer is accused of saying "If not a biggest element, then certainly an
element than which no other element is bigger."

This, however, is completely reasonable.  Consider the following partial
order on letters of the alphabet:
a > b
c > b

Here, c is not a biggest element (since (not (> c a))), but no
element is bigger than it.

	Clearly spoken by a computer science graduate student,
	Greg

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