cardinality
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3ADJ.
natural, richer
VERB + CARDINALITY
set, size
PREP.
with
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noun
The number of elements a given set contains.
The empty set has a cardinality of zero.
The cardinality of a set A is the least ordinal α such that there exists a bijection between A and α. We sometimes use the notation #92;alpha#61;#124;A#124; to indicate this.
The number of terms that can inhabit a type; the possible values of a type.
For many types, such as String, the set of possible values is unlimited. Such types have an infinite cardinality.
The property of a relationship between a database table and another one, specifying whether it is one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, or many-to-many.
The status of being cardinalitial
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4The empty set has a cardinality of zero.
WiktionaryThe cardinality of a set A is the least ordinal α such that there exists a bijection between A and α. We sometimes use the notation #92;alpha#61;#124;A#124; to indicate this.
WiktionaryFor fuzzy sets, the concept of set size or cardinality is both richer and more problematic than it is for crisp sets. It is richer because, as we shall see, we may use more than one kind of cardinalit
WiktionaryA set with the cardinality of the natural numbers is called "countably infinite".
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