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Set Basic Operation

There are three fundamental set operations: unions, intersections, and complements. The union of two sets A and B contains all elements that are in A or B. The intersection contains elements that are common to both A and B. The complement of a set B within a universal set U contains all elements of U that are not in B.

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Set Basic Operation

There are three fundamental set operations: unions, intersections, and complements. The union of two sets A and B contains all elements that are in A or B. The intersection contains elements that are common to both A and B. The complement of a set B within a universal set U contains all elements of U that are not in B.

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Basic operations

There are several fundamental operations for constructing new sets from given sets.

Unions

Two sets can be "added" together. The union of A and B, denoted by A ∪ B, is the set of all
things that are members of either A or B.
Examples:

 {1, 2} ∪ {2, 3} = {1, 2, 3}.

Intersections
A new set can also be constructed by determining which members two sets have "in
common". The intersection of A and B, denoted by A ∩ B, is the set of all things that are
members of both A and B. If A ∩ B = ∅, then A and B are said to be disjoint.

Examples:

 {1, 2} ∩ {2, 3} = {2}.


Complements

The relative complement
of B in A

Two sets can also be "subtracted". The relative complement of B in A (also called the set-


theoretic difference of A and B), denoted by A \ B (or A − B), is the set of all elements that are
members of A but not members of B. U \ A with U bieng universal sets, is called the absolute
complement or simply complement of A, and is denoted by A′.
 A′ = U \ A

Examples:

 {1, 2} \ {1, 2} = ∅.
 {1, 2, 3, 4} \ {1, 3} = {2, 4}.
 If U is the set of integers, E is the set of even integers, and O is the set of odd integers,
then U\ E = E′ = O.

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