The 10th Dedekind number
The nth Dedekind number M(n) is the number of monotone Boolean functions of n variables. The 9th Dedekind number was recently computed to be M(9) = 286386577668298411128469151667598498812366. The previous post defines monotone Boolean functions and explicitly enumerates the functions for one, two, or three variables. As that post demonstrates, M(1)
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The 9th Dedekind number was recently computed. What is a Dedekind number and why was it a big deal to compute just the 9th one of them? We need to define a couple terms before we can define Dedekind numbers. A Boolean function is a function whose inputs are o’s
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