uncountable set
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- infinite set
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- greater than
- countably infinite set
- studied by
- measure theory
- opposite of
- countable set
- different from
- non-measurable set
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In mathematics, an uncountable set, informally, is an infinite set that contains too many elements to be countable. The uncountability of a set is closely related to its cardinal number: a set is uncountable if its cardinal number is larger than aleph-null, the cardinality of the natural numbers.
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