Talk:Set consolidation

Why.

I needed this function to find all the ports on a net in an electronic netlist from huge lists of pairs of ports on all the nets of a design. I tried to find out what the "computer science-type" name for the routine might be but failed. --Paddy3118 10:59, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

I'm not sure either, but if you break the sets down into sets of 2, it becomes the problem of finding the connected components of a graph, the sets of size 2 being the edges and the items being the nodes. --Spoon! 18:59, 7 May 2012 (UTC)