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Nested set collection

. example. Outside-in: order, family, genus, species. A nested set collection or nested set family is a collection of sets that consists of chains of subsets forming a hierarchical structure, like Russian dolls. It is used as reference concept in scientific hierarchy definitions, and many technical approaches, like the tree in computational data structures or nested set model of relational databases. Sometimes the concept is confused with a collection of sets with a hereditary property (like finiteness in a hereditarily finite set).

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. example. Outside-in: order, family, genus, species. A nested set collection or nested set family is a collection of sets that consists of chains of subsets forming a hierarchical structure, like Russian dolls. It is used as reference concept in scientific hierarchy definitions, and many technical approaches, like the tree in computational data structures or nested set model of relational databases. Sometimes the concept is confused with a collection of sets with a hereditary property (like finiteness in a hereditarily finite set).

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