[Haskell-beginners] library for lattice data structure

[Dudley Brooks]

On 3/12/14 1:19 AM, Kim-Ee Yeoh wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:35 AM, James Toll <james at jtoll.com
> <mailto:james at jtoll.com>> wrote:
>
>> Coming from a finance background, differences in terminology
>> between finance, physics, math, and statistics is par for the
>> course. I’ll have to be better about understanding the terminology
>> from a math perspective and will try to keep that in mind when
>> posting to this list.
>
> On deeper reflection, I realize it's more complicated than that.
> Because there are at least two meanings in math.
>
> The lattices on hackage are all about posets and meets and joins,
> tracing back to the work of Birkhoff in that subspecialization of
> algebra known as order theory.
>
> Then there are the lattices in sphere packings and geometric number
> theory and 'lattice'-based cryptography, cf ntru.
>
> One could say that the geometric lattices are closer to binomial
> lattices, but not really. I wonder why 'binomial tree' isn't
> perfectly cromulent.

Thanks.  Your comments have embiggened our understanding.

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Dudley