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3 +2 | null set (or empty set) |
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null set (or empty set) Explanation: Set Theory We will define a "set" to be an unordered group of objects with no duplicates.[...] There are two special sets: the "empty set" and the "universal set". The empty set (or null set) is the set which contains no objects and is denoted {}... http://www.rwc.uc.edu/koehler/comath/26.html Empty Set -- From MathWorld The set containing no elements, denoted emptyset. Strangely, the empty set is both open and closed for any set X and topology. A set that is not the empty set is called a nonempty set. The empty set is sometimes also known as the null set (Mendelson 1997). Unfortunately, some authors use the notation 0 in http://mathworld.wolfram.com/EmptySet.html |
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