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From: Mike Coe <coe@sctc.com>
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To: info-hol@leopard.cs.byu.edu
Subject: HOL sets
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Hello,


let's say I have  a set of sets 

A = {  {2,3,4} , {1,5,7} .....}



what I want  is a function that will return the union
all of the sets in the set A.


that is


given  a set A = { {set a } , {set b}, {set c}  ...}


flat_ran A =   {set a} U  {set b} U {set b} U {set c} ...



can anyone help me out ....


thanks 

mike
coe@sctc.com 

