On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 08:39:48PM +0100, Bart Lateur wrote:
> Talking about intuition... how on earth did you come on the idea for the
> name?

Well... In the original context the definition was

 "W is not minimal in its conjugacy class with respect to the
 lexicographic ordering <",

and I hoped for a more comprehensible way to express it.

I agree that "shrinkable" isn't great. Any better ideas?

 .robin.

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