Section outline

  • There are some sets used so often in Maths that they have their own special names. Some of these special sets are shown in the table that follows.

    Types of sets

    Try the next exercise to test your knowledge on combining sets.


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      Practise combining sets

      Click on the exercise Basic set notation to test your understanding of notation and combining sets. Note that when you see \(X\) \ \(Y\) this is the set of elements of \(X\) without the elements contained in \(Y\).

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