 Inclusion-maximal separated set (source code)

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= Inclusion-maximal separated set

= Maximal separated set
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An inclusion-maximal <separated set> is one to which no further point of the ambient <metric space> can be added while keeping the same separation. It need not have the largest possible cardinality. In a finite space it can be obtained by repeatedly adding an admissible point.

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