Definition
A decision list (DL) of length is of the form:
if then output else if then output ... else if then outputwhere is the th formula and is the th boolean for . The last if-then-else is the default case, which means formula is always equal to true. A -DL is a decision list where all of formulas have at most terms. Sometimes "decision list" is used to refer to a 1-DL, where all of the formulas are either a variable or its negation.
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