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We then introduce this approach into a multi-scale environment to obtain the dominance relation of the multi-scale single-valued neutrosophic rough set model, resulting in two discernibility matrices and functions. We propose the algorithm for lower approximation optimal scale reduction and further examine the method of rule acquisition based on the discernibility matrix. 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