User:08dravennew/Hypercontainment

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Hypercontainment is a concept transcending containment, that is "set siblings" are to containment as containment is to hypercontainment.

Hypercontainment is hierarchy-based, while regular containment is spatial-based.

That is, if A hypercontains B, then the containment hierarchies within B are also subsections of A's hierarchies. The other rules are similar to containment, even allowning for pseudo-variants of hierarchies depending on how you look at it.

Hypercontainment sizes are described in "a maximum hierarchical length of x". Other "dimensions" (which are actually different types of hierarchies using different concepts similar to containment) can be described as well.

Extension
If one wants to go on arbitrarily further, "hyperhypercontainment" can be defined using similar methods, and so on. This can be defined as $$x\C^b_a$$, where $$0\C$$ is regular "contained by" and A's $$x\C$$-ordered hierarchies are a subsection of B's $$(x-1)\C$$-ordered hierarchies.

Implementation
One example of hypercontainment, is TOH itself. TOH doesn't actually contain anything, it instead embodies containment neighbors in a summarized form. Due to the large length of verse chains, TOH's hypersize is huge.

Laws can also exist at a hypercontainment scale, and these laws vary between hierarchies. These laws generally affect the structure of containment/position/size, i.e. the maximum extent of the hierarchy or what containment relations are allowed.