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The collection so basic that all of mathematics decided to build on it.
means A group of things considered together as a single collection, or the act of putting something in a particular place or state.
from From Old English 'settan,' meaning to cause to sit or place, a causative cousin of 'sittan' (to sit) — so to 'set' something down is literally to make it sit. The word ballooned over centuries into one of English's most overworked verbs and nouns, racking up hundreds of distinct senses; the mathematical 'set' is a much later, more abstract borrowing of that same 'things placed together' idea.
- empty exists
- A set with nothing inside still counts
- egyptian god
- Set ruled chaos, deserts, and murdered his brother
- no duplicates
- Same element twice is just once
- russell broke it
- A set of all sets crashed math itself
- card game
- Spotting patterns fast beats raw intelligence here
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