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  • noun set theory A generalization of a set: a container, in which, unlike for set, an element can be present multiple times.

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  • The pomsets-core package implements the core functionality for workflow management in the cloud. pomsets is a computational workflow management system for your cloud infrastructure. pomset is short for "partially-ordered multiset".

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010

  • For the study, researchers with the University of Alabama at Birmingham recruited one group of adults in their 20s and 30s and another in their 60s and 70s and had both groups undertake a four-month program of fairly strenuous weight training, with thrice weekly, multiset sessions at the gym.

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  • I just can't think of a way in which that could be done, since a keyboard layout is a permutation of a list rather than a selection from a multiset.

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  • I just can't think of a way in which that could be done, since a keyboard layout is a permutation of a list rather than a selection from a multiset.

    doggdot.us 2009

  • Question: How will new coordinator Jedd Fisch's pro-style, multiset offense work?

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  • Pickles · Snowing presents - advent calendar Deviantart · Silent Night Christmas icons by * LazyCrazy on deviantART Deviantart · Harddisk multiset by ~hezral on deviantART Deviantart · Generic Controller 2 by ~MazeNL77 on deviantART Deviantart · Soft Nature by ~Delta909 on deviantART MyFonts · Leksa, a 12-font text family by Alexandra Korolkova from Moscow.

    The Iconfactory 2009

  • 17.15 Never modify the key part of a set or multiset element.

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  • \ "That is, the multiset {1, 4, 1} has 1 (twice) and 4

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

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