CDM112 SET- is a collection of well defined and distinct objects, considered as an object in its own right.

ELEMENTS OF SET - A number, letter, point, line, or any other object contained in a set. For example, the elements of the set {a, b, c} are the letters a, b, and c. KINDS OF SET* A finite set has a limited number of members, such as the letters of the alphabet; *an infinite set has an unlimited number of members, such as all whole numbers; *an empty or null set has no members, such as the number of people who have swum across the Atlantic Ocean, written as {} or ; a single-element set has only one member, such as days of the week beginning with M, written as {Monday}. *Equal sets have the same members; for example, if W = {days of the week} and S = {Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday}, it can be said that W = S. *Sets with the same number of members are equivalent sets. *Sets with some members in common are intersecting sets; for example, if R = {red playing cards} and F = {face cards}, then R and F share the members that are red face cards. *Sets with no members in common are disjoint sets. *Sets contained within others are subsets; for example, V = {vowels} is a subset of L = {letters of the alphabet}. *a universal set is a set which contains all objects, including it. OPERATIONS of SETUnions-Two sets can be "added" together. The union of A and B, denoted by A B, is the set of all things which are members of either A or B.

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 which are members of bothA and B. If A B = , then A and B are said to be disjoint.

Complements-Two sets can also be "subtracted". The relative complement of B in A (also called the settheoretic difference of A and B), denoted by A \ B (or A B), is the set of all elements which are members of A but not members of B. Note that it is valid to "subtract" members of a set that are not in the set, such as removing the element green from the set {1, 2, 3}; doing so has no effect. In certain settings all sets under discussion are considered to be subsets of a given universal set U. In such cases, U \ A is called the absolute complement or simply complement of A, and is denoted by A.

*An extension of the complement is the symmetric difference, defined for sets A, B as

For example, the symmetric difference of {7,8,9,10} and {9,10,11,12} is the set {7,8,11,12}.