Building a Discussion Group Using Set Theory

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The discussion focuses on using set theory to model a discussion group with two initial sets: Persons and Strings. Members are defined as a subset of Persons, while Topics and Statements are subsets of Strings. Views are more complex, as they consist of a member and a statement, which can be represented as a Cartesian product of the Members and Statements sets. Clarification on notation for Views is sought, and the response confirms that the proposed structure makes sense. The conversation emphasizes the importance of understanding set relationships in this modeling exercise.
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Hi,

I was wondering if anyone had any ideas how to approach this model building exercise. I've got to use set theory to design a discussion group, I'm given two initial sets (Persons and Strings), from this I have to make the following sets:

Members - set of members, each member is a person.
(This i believe is a simple set in which member is a subset of Persons)

Topics - set of topics debated, each topic is a string.
(I believe topic is a subset of string)

Statements - set of statements made by members, eash statement is a string.
(Again i think this is a simple statement is subset of string)

Views - set of views of members on topics, each view consists of of a statement and the name of the member who made the statement.
(This I am unsure of notation on, as view consists of a member and a statement)

Thanks in advance.
 
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Shephard said:
Hi,

I was wondering if anyone had any ideas how to approach this model building exercise. I've got to use set theory to design a discussion group, I'm given two initial sets (Persons and Strings), from this I have to make the following sets:

Members - set of members, each member is a person.
(This i believe is a simple set in which member is a subset of Persons)

Topics - set of topics debated, each topic is a string.
(I believe topic is a subset of string)

Statements - set of statements made by members, eash statement is a string.
(Again i think this is a simple statement is subset of string)

Views - set of views of members on topics, each view consists of of a statement and the name of the member who made the statement.
(This I am unsure of notation on, as view consists of a member and a statement)

Thanks in advance.

Assuming the sets of members and statements are already defined, then views \subseteqmembers x statements where x is the cartesian product operator.
 
Thanks, that makes sense
 
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