Just wonder, are the functions drop.tip() and tree_subset() same in mathematics?

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Just wonder, are the functions drop.tip() and tree_subset() same in mathematics? #108

Open judyssister opened 1 year ago

judyssister commented 1 year ago

For example, tree0 could be divided into subtree1 and subtree2. If extracting subtree1 using tree_subset() equals to that deleting all tips of subtree2 from tree0?