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being threefold; a classification into three parts or subclasses
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Generally, a trichotomy is a splitting into three disjoint parts. In mathematics, the most concrete law of trichotomy that is usually seen is the statement that for any real numbers x and y, exactly one of the following relations holds: More generally, a law of trichotomy is any statement that for some binary relation on some set S, which we may denote by using the "less than" symbol "
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