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What are finite sets?

They are sets with a finite number of elements. For example the days of the week, or the 12 months of the year. Modular arithmetic is based on finite sets.


What is the kinds of sets?

Closed sets and open sets, or finite and infinite sets.


Give you examples of finite sets of numbers?

sets


What is the two kind of sets?

Closed sets and open sets, or finite and infinite sets.


What is countable set and uncountable set?

A countable set is defined as one whose elements can be put into one-to-one correspondence with elements of the set of counting numbers or some subset of it. A countable set can be infinite: for example all even numbers. This raises the strange concept where a subset (positive even numbers) has the same cardinality as all counting numbers - which should be a set that is twice as large! Even more confusingly (perhaps) is the fact that the set of all rational numbers also has the same cardinality as the set of counting numbers. You need to go to the set of irrationals or bigger before you get to uncountable sets. So you have the weird situation in which there are more irrationals between 0 and 1 than there are rationals between from 0 and infinity (if infinity can be treated as a value)! There is a minority definition of countable which means containing a finite number of elements as opposed to uncountable meaning infinitely many elements. However, these definitions are essentially the same as the finite sets and infinite sets and so there is little point in using them.

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Is the union of finite countable sets finite?

YES


Prove that a finite cartesian product of countable sets is countable?

here is the proof: http://planetmath.org/encyclopedia/ProductOfAFiniteNumberOfCountableSetsIsCountable.html


Is counting measure indeed a measure and is this always sigma-finite?

It is a measure, but it isn't always sigma-finite. Take your space X = [0,1], and u = counting measure if u(E) < infinity, then E is a finite set, but there is no way to cover the uncountable set [0,1] by a countable collection of finite sets.


What are finite sets?

They are sets with a finite number of elements. For example the days of the week, or the 12 months of the year. Modular arithmetic is based on finite sets.


What is the kinds of sets?

Closed sets and open sets, or finite and infinite sets.


Give you examples of finite sets of numbers?

sets


What is the two kind of sets?

Closed sets and open sets, or finite and infinite sets.


What is kind of set?

Closed sets and open sets, or finite and infinite sets.


What the kinds of set?

Closed sets and open sets, or finite and infinite sets.


Show that the union of two countable sets is countable?

CHECK THIS OUT http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~hill/2112/assn7sol.pdf


What is countable set and uncountable set?

A countable set is defined as one whose elements can be put into one-to-one correspondence with elements of the set of counting numbers or some subset of it. A countable set can be infinite: for example all even numbers. This raises the strange concept where a subset (positive even numbers) has the same cardinality as all counting numbers - which should be a set that is twice as large! Even more confusingly (perhaps) is the fact that the set of all rational numbers also has the same cardinality as the set of counting numbers. You need to go to the set of irrationals or bigger before you get to uncountable sets. So you have the weird situation in which there are more irrationals between 0 and 1 than there are rationals between from 0 and infinity (if infinity can be treated as a value)! There is a minority definition of countable which means containing a finite number of elements as opposed to uncountable meaning infinitely many elements. However, these definitions are essentially the same as the finite sets and infinite sets and so there is little point in using them.


What are sets of finite?

They are numbers that terminate.