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Empty image vs. non-empty image.

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	COMMENTS	`The first Bongard Problem.` `All examples in this Bongard Problem are line drawings (one or more connected figures made up of curved and non-curved lines).`
	REFERENCE	`M. M. Bongard, Pattern Recognition, Spartan Books, 1970, p. 214.`
	CROSSREFS	`Adjacent-numbered pages: * BP2 BP3 BP4 BP5 BP6`
	EXAMPLE	`A circle fits on the right because it is not nothing.`
	KEYWORD	`easy, nice, precise, allsorted, unstable, world, left-narrow, left-finite, left-full, left-null, perfect, pixelperfect, finished, traditional, stableworld, deformstable, bongard`
	CONCEPT	`empty (info \| search),` `existence (info \| search),` `zero (info \| search)`
	WORLD	`zoom in left (blank_image) \| zoom in right (curves_drawing)`
	AUTHOR	`Mikhail M. Bongard`

Squares are either all empty or all contain something vs. not so.

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	CROSSREFS	`Adjacent-numbered pages: BP255 BP256 BP257 BP258 BP259 * BP261 BP262 BP263 BP264 BP265`
	KEYWORD	`traditional`
	CONCEPT	`all (info \| search),` `or (info \| search),` `empty (info \| search)`
	AUTHOR	`Carla Rispoli`

Lower bound is object vs. lower bound is nothing.

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	CROSSREFS	`Adjacent-numbered pages: BP838 BP839 BP840 BP841 BP842 * BP844 BP845 BP846 BP847 BP848`
	KEYWORD	`creativeexamples, structure, rules`
	CONCEPT	`empty (info \| search)`
	WORLD	`constant_change_seq_increase_right_lower_bound [smaller \| same \| bigger] zoom in left (constant_change_seq_increase_right_low_bound_obj)`
	AUTHOR	`Aaron David Fairbanks`

Blank image vs. nothing.

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	COMMENTS	`Two kinds of "nothing".`
	CROSSREFS	`See also BP1219, "blank image vs. image of blank square".` `Adjacent-numbered pages: BP1051 BP1052 BP1053 BP1054 BP1055 * BP1057 BP1058 BP1059 BP1060 BP1061`
	KEYWORD	`left-finite, right-finite, left-full, right-full, left-null, finished, invalid, experimental, funny, finishedexamples`
	CONCEPT	`empty (info \| search),` `existence (info \| search),` `zero (info \| search)`
	WORLD	`blank_image [smaller \| same \| bigger] zoom in left (blank_image) \| zoom in right (nothing)`
	AUTHOR	`Aaron David Fairbanks`

Empty square present vs. no square present.

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	CROSSREFS	`Nearly identical to BP1221, which is the same except non-empty squares are allowed.` `See BP24 for "circle present vs. not".` `Adjacent-numbered pages: BP1204 BP1205 BP1206 BP1207 BP1208 * BP1210 BP1211 BP1212 BP1213 BP1214`
	KEYWORD	`stub, left-narrow, traditional`
	CONCEPT	`empty (info \| search),` `existence (info \| search),` `square (info \| search)`
	AUTHOR	`Aaron David Fairbanks`

Blank image (square) vs. image of blank square.

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	CROSSREFS	`See also BP1056, "blank image vs. nothing".` `BP1 is also a (less specific) solution to this.` `BP1209 (flipped) is also a (less specific) solution to this.` `Adjacent-numbered pages: BP1214 BP1215 BP1216 BP1217 BP1218 * BP1220 BP1221 BP1222 BP1223 BP1224`
	KEYWORD	`minimal, gap, left-narrow, right-narrow, left-finite, right-finite, left-full, right-full, left-null, funny, unstableworld`
	CONCEPT	`empty (info \| search),` `square (info \| search)`
	AUTHOR	`Aaron David Fairbanks`

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