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function assigning numbers to some subsets of a set, which could be seen as a generalization of length, area, volume and integral

Wikidata facts

Subclass of
function
Image
Measure illustration (Vector).svg
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Commons category
Measures (measure theory)
studied by
measure theory
definition domain
sigma-algebra
has characteristic
sigma additivity
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Encyclopedic overview

Informally, a measure has the property of being monotone in the sense that if

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “measure” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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