conjunto pasivo

English translation: null set (or empty set)

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Spanish term or phrase:conjunto pasivo
English translation:null set (or empty set)
Entered by: tradugag

01:44 Mar 31, 2006
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Mathematics & Statistics / Mathematics I
Spanish term or phrase: conjunto pasivo
Es parte del programa Matemáticas I de la carrera de arquitectura.

Conjuntos: definición por extensión y comprensión. Conjunto universal y pasivo.
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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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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


Maria Karra
United States
Local time: 13:24
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Thank you, Maria!

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