Concept information
Preferred term
finite set
Definition
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In mathematics, particularly set theory, a finite set is a set that has a finite number of elements. Informally, a finite set is a set which one could in principle count and finish counting. For example,
{2,4,6,8,10}
is a finite set with five elements. The number of elements of a finite set is a natural number (possibly zero) and is called the cardinality (or the cardinal number) of the set. A set that is not a finite set is called an infinite set. For example, the set of all positive integers is infinite :
{1,2,3,…}
(Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_set)
Broader concept
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/PSR-R23QHZHQ-S
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