Ah my bad, I misunderstood the initial condition. nX is a function of X. My 
statements were only true if nX=X. Well, sorry about the noise.

> On 2 May 2018, at 8:20 am, Roman Fleysher <roman.fleys...@einstein.yu.edu> 
> wrote:
> 
> Dear Barry,
> 
> The statement about the square is not obvious to me. The requirements on 
> counts in x and y are different.
> 
> I also imagine answer could be two or several non-overlapping  "rectangles". 
> "Rectangles" will not be densely filled with dots, they might have empty 
> spots either because the points were never on the list or were eliminated.
> 
> Roman
> 
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> of Barry Smith [smith.bar...@gmail.com]
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> Subject: Re: [sqlite] probably recursive?
> 
> Well those constraints simplify your problem.
> 
> In the resultant dataset, the largest X and Y values will be equal, and the 
> largest X will have and entry for every coordinate from (X, 1) to (X, X). 
> Likewise the largest Y will have an entry for every coordinate from (1, Y) to 
> (Y, Y). Basically you'll have two lines from the axes, drawing a square. All 
> points outside that square will be culled, all points on and inside the 
> square will be kept.
> 
> Since you know that, you now have a one dimensional problem to solve. It 
> still seems a little recursive to me, but it should be easier because you 
> only need to find a single number (which you can then plug into a delete 
> statement).
> 
> If my statement about the square is not obvious to prove in your head I can 
> try write a proof for that but I'm not much good at proofs.
> 
>> On 2 May 2018, at 7:27 am, Roman Fleysher <roman.fleys...@einstein.yu.edu> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Pairs (x,y) do not repeat.
>> 
>> Actual x and y are positive integers, but I do not see how being positive 
>> can be relevant. Integer is important for sorting/comparison.
>> 
>> 
>> Roman
>> 
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>> Subject: Re: [sqlite] probably recursive?
>> 
>> Is there a uniqueness constraint on your initial data? Can the same 
>> coordinate be listed multiple times?
>> 
>> Is there a requirement that X > 0 and Y > 0?
>> 
>>>> On 2 May 2018, at 3:35 am, Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 1 May 2018, at 6:28pm, Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I just realised that
>>> 
>>> That was intended to be personal email.  Apologies, everyone.
>>> 
>>> Simon.
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