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The following notations are commonly used:
notation | meaning |
is element of | |
is not element of | |
is a subset of | |
is a strict subset of | |
number of elements in | |
empty set |
If (), is called a finite (infinite) set.
Two sets are called equipotent, if there exists a bijective map between their elements ( for finite sets and ).
The set of all subsets of is called power set, i.e. . In particular, we have and . Moreover, .
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