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📏 Any chance of some #maths terminology help here, folks?

We're looking at a board of @simontatham's Loopy, and it's the logic around that squared 2-region I'm interested in.

• The Top edge has already been erased, so cannot count towards the region's total.
• We know that the line entering its bottom-left corner must continue along either its Left or Bottom edge, but not both, thus accounting for 1 of the 2 line segments the region needs drawn.
• Therefore, the Right edge must inevitably be drawn, to bring the region's total to 2.

It's that "optionality leading to inevitability" I'm wondering if there's a term for. Found my way to the Wiki article on Integer partition – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_partition – which I think feels kinda close, and am temped to refer to this logic as "Partitioning". But does anyone with more maths language up their sleeve than me have a better idea?

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