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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: on cut edges and bonds, graph theory
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William Elliot <marsh@panix.com> writes:

> On Tue, 19 Sep 2017, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> William Elliot <marsh@panix.com> writes:
>
>> >> ...  The book uses an over bar for that case: [S, S?E].
>> >> 
>> >> For [A, B] to be an edge cut, A ?H? B = V, A ?H? B = {}, A =/= {} and
>> >> B =/= {}.
>> <snip>
>> > What does S?E and ?H? mean?
>> 
>> They means that some software has had trouble with the Content-Type of
>> my post.  They are the transliteration chosen by that software for byte
>> sequences representing a combining overline, set union and set
>> intersection.
>
> Usenet is old fashion.  Such stuff doesn't communicate well.

I prefer to think of some software as old fashioned.  With a little
help, Usenet is fit for the 21st Century.

> We use various other plain text symbols for intersection and union.

Who is "we"?

-- 
Ben.