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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 AA, its power set is denoted by P(A)\mathcal{P}(A), and it includes every combination you can pick from AA, from the empty set all the way up to AA itself. This concept is surprisingly powerful because it reveals how many different "choices" a set can off …