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Abbreviation of partially ordered set. Coined by American mathematician Garrett Birkhoff in his Lattice Theory.
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Abbreviation of partially ordered set. Coined by American mathematician Garrett Birkhoff in his Lattice Theory.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.