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From: Phlip (pplumlee_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-03-09 14:46:40


Proclaimed Jeremy Siek from the mountaintops:

> I'm afraid we skipped matroids in my grad. level algorithms class. It
> may be a while before I read up on them.

I asked the news:sci.math to tell me what matroids are in simple
terms, but all they said was "Z(S[m]; e^t, 1, 1, 1 ... ) == (1/m!) sigma
(h E S[m]) e ^ (t lambda[1](h))" blah blah blah.

You can try reading the thread "What's a matroid?" ;-)

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