law of trichotomy

law of trichotomy

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  • trichotomy property — Math. the property that for natural numbers a and b, either a is less than b, a equals b, or a is greater than b. Also called law of trichotomy, trichotomy law, trichotomy principle. * * * …   Universalium

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