union closed subsets
Source: ICMC 2021 Round 2 P1
December 12, 2021
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Problem Statement
Let be a set with 10 distinct elements. A set of subsets of (possibly containing the empty set) is called union-closed if, for all , it is true that . Show that the number of union-closed sets is less than .Proposed by Tony Wang