Talk:Containment order

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I've always called this "inclusion" rather than "containment". Does anyone else have preferences? Michael Hardy 03:23, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Wanna create a redirect from inclusion order?—PaulTanenbaum 05:27, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Well, how about moving this page to that? One hears of things being "partially ordered by inclusion", but I've never heard anyone say "partially ordered by containment". Michael Hardy 19:19, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

...occasionally one encounters a fastidious person who says a includes b when b is a subset of a, and a contains b when b is a member of a. That's another reason to prefer the other title. Michael Hardy 19:21, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Michael, see the references I've added. The term containment order is, in fact, the only one I've every encountered to describe these posets.—PaulTanenbaum 21:34, 10 September 2007 (UTC)