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subset

In mathematics, set that is part of a larger set. For example, the girls in a class make up a subset if the class contains both boys and girls.



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1) above): (9) the members of each collection include those of the next as the proper subset (with soldier Brown representing a limiting case of a subset, though not of a collection, since the latter has two members as its limiting case).
A is a proper subset if all of its elements are also elements of B but not all the elements of B are contained in A (Figure 1b).
 
 
 
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