/sci/ - Science & Math

does anyone know how I might contextualize reagent testing in a general like math way?

for example I want to write a program where you input a series of test result colors (of any length, and these results would probably be a tuple with the test used- [color,test]) and output a list of possible substances.

optionally too, an easy way, if the output list is >1, for it to project from there all possible [color,test] series that would result in the most specific substance possibilities.
(so like if an output list is A,B,C,D and substances C and D are not differentiable with any testing, it would give something like { [test1,orange],[test2,blue],A; [test1,orange],[test2,blue],[test3,blue],B; [test4,red],C,D } )

I'm using the word series, but I guess order doesn't matter right. I don't remember much of this kind of thing.