Applied Mathematics · Ch 3 — Sets
Power Set
3.5
Power Set
The idea of a set is to collect objects, but what if we turn the collection itself into an object? The power set does exactly that — it is the set of all possible subsets of a given set. For any set , its power set is denoted by , and it includes every combination you can pick from , from the empty set all the way up to itself. This concept is surprisingly powerful because it reveals how many different "choices" a set can off …