Transitive closure

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title: Transitive closure
text: In mathematics, the transitive closure R+ of a homogeneous binary relation R on a set X is the smallest relation on X that contains R and is transitive. For finite sets, "smallest" can be taken in its usual sense, of having the fewest related pairs; for infinite sets R+ is the unique minimal transitive superset of R. For example, if X is a set of airports and x R y means "there is a direct flight from airport x to airport y", then the transitive closure of R on X is the relation R+ such that x R
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date created: 2003-08-09T03:57:03Z
date modified: 2024-09-08T12:10:39Z
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