Partition refinement
Okay, so you know how sometimes you play a game that has different groups of things, like a group of cars and a group of stuffed animals? Well, in the world of maths, we call these groups "partitions."
Partition refinement is a fancy way to make these groups even more organized. It's like if you took the group of cars and sorted them by color, so all the red cars were together and all the blue cars were together.
But instead of just sorting by color, we keep making different groups that have more and more specific things in common. So maybe we sort the red cars again by the ones that have stripes and the ones that don't have stripes.
We keep doing this until every item is part of its own super specific group. This is called "refining" the partitions.
Basically, partition refinement is just a way to make groups of things even more organized by finding common characteristics and grouping them together in increasingly specific ways.
Partition refinement is a fancy way to make these groups even more organized. It's like if you took the group of cars and sorted them by color, so all the red cars were together and all the blue cars were together.
But instead of just sorting by color, we keep making different groups that have more and more specific things in common. So maybe we sort the red cars again by the ones that have stripes and the ones that don't have stripes.
We keep doing this until every item is part of its own super specific group. This is called "refining" the partitions.
Basically, partition refinement is just a way to make groups of things even more organized by finding common characteristics and grouping them together in increasingly specific ways.