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This article covers both subsets and supersets. These two concepts are inseparable, and mutually dependent: there cannot be subsets if there aren't supersets. It is therefore illogical to have one term in the title, but not its counterpart. This page was actually called Subset and superset for a short time back in 2014.
These are two examples in which both the subset and the whole set are infinite, and the subset has the same cardinality (the concept that corresponds to size, that is, the number of elements, of a finite set) as the whole; such cases can run counter to one's initial intuition. The set of rational numbers is a proper subset of the set of real ...
Given two sets A and B, A is a subset of B if every element of A is also an element of B. In particular, each set B is a subset of itself; a subset of B that is not equal to B is called a proper subset. If A is a subset of B, then one can also say that B is a superset of A, that A is contained in B, or that B contains A.
For example, the intersection of the x-axis and y-axis in under addition is the trivial subgroup. More generally, the intersection of an arbitrary collection of subgroups of G is a subgroup of G. The union of subgroups A and B is a subgroup if and only if A ⊆ B or B ⊆ A.
If the base set is finite, then = ℘ since every subset of , and in particular every complement, is then finite.This case is sometimes excluded by definition or else called the improper filter on . [2] Allowing to be finite creates a single exception to the Fréchet filter’s being free and non-principal since a filter on a finite set cannot be free and a non-principal filter cannot contain ...
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For instance, had been declared as a subset of , with the sets and not necessarily related to each other in any way, then would likely mean instead of . If it is needed then unless indicated otherwise, it should be assumed that X {\displaystyle X} denotes the universe set , which means that all sets that are used in the formula are subsets of X ...
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