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lower bound
[ loh-er ]
noun
, Mathematics.
- an element less than or equal to all the elements in a given set:
The numbers 0 and 1 are lower bounds of the set consisting of 1, 2, and 3.
lower bound
- A number that is less than or equal to every number in a given set.
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One focus of Williams’s research is to make lower bounds constructive and concrete—mathematical objects with describable features.
This was a clever way to identify lower bounds on the sizes of anti-isosceles grids with too many points to exhaustively handle.
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