subsequence
Noun
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Alt. of Subsequency
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PLAGIARISM, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.
An equivalent definition is that every sequence of points must have an infinite subsequence that converges to some point of the space.
For example, the permutation 2453167 has the ascending runs 245, 3, and 167, while it has an increasing subsequence 2367.
If so, it records as matching the whole subsequence.
In particular, the sequence of points 0, 1, 2, 3, … has no subsequence that converges to any given real number.
Let be the set of all irrational numbers that correspond to sequences with the following property: there exists an infinite subsequence such that each element is a divisor of the next element.