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2013 Iran Team Selection Test
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2013 Iran Team Selection Test
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(1)
|B-A| >= 3 for any subsets A,B
Source: Iran TST 2013: TST 1, Day 1, Problem 2
4/17/2013
Find the maximum number of subsets from
{
1
,
.
.
.
,
n
}
\left \{ 1,...,n \right \}
{
1
,
...
,
n
}
such that for any two of them like
A
,
B
A,B
A
,
B
if
A
⊂
B
A\subset B
A
⊂
B
then
∣
B
−
A
∣
≥
3
\left | B-A \right |\geq 3
∣
B
−
A
∣
≥
3
. (Here
∣
X
∣
\left | X \right |
∣
X
∣
is the number of elements of the set
X
X
X
.)
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