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union closed subsets

Source: ICMC 2021 Round 2 P1

December 12, 2021
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Problem Statement

Let SS be a set with 10 distinct elements. A set TT of subsets of SS (possibly containing the empty set) is called union-closed if, for all A,BTA, B \in T, it is true that ABTA \cup B \in T. Show that the number of union-closed sets TT is less than 210232^{1023}.
Proposed by Tony Wang