MAT 1348 Study Guide - Final Guide: Subset, Empty Set, Idempotence

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Defn: a set is a collection of distinct objects; these objects are then called elements of the set. A set can have a nite (even zero) or an in nite number of elements. Conventionally we use capital letters to denote sets. To express that an element x is in a set a, we write x a. The elements of a set can be numbers, functions, and pretty much anything else. Important sets of numbers: n, z, q, r, z , z+ There are two common ways of denoting sets: (i) list notation. Example: s = {8, 12, 16, 20} (ii) set-builder notation. Example: s = {4i|i z, 2 i 5} or s = {4i : i z, 2 i 5} Defns: the set that has no elements is called the empty set, de- noted by or {}. A set a is called a subset of a set b, denoted by a b, if (x a x b) for all x.

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