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These days school children are taught about sets. A second grader* was asked to name “the set of girls in his class.” This can be done by a complete list such as:
“Nancy, Florence, Sally, Judy, Ann, Barbara,...”
A problem arises when there are duplicates. To distinguish between two Barbaras one must indicate their family names or call them B 1 and B 2. The same member cannot be counted twice in a set.
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Chung, K.L. (1974). Set. In: Elementary Probability Theory with Stochastic Processes. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3973-2_1
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