Mathematics · Ch 14 — Sets and Relations
Complement of a Set
14.1.5.1
Complement of a Set
The COMPLEMENT of a set A, denoted or , is defined as — that is, the set of all elements of the universal set U that are NOT in A. For example, let be the universal set and ; then the complement of A is — every element of X that isn't in A. …
Figure 1Fig. 5.2 — complement of a set
What this figure shows. A Venn diagram showing the universal set X as an outer rectangle containing a circle labelled A inside it; the shaded region is everything inside the rectangle but outside the circle, visually depicting the complement A' as 'all of the universal set except A' — used alongside the worked example X={0,...,8}, A={2,4,6,8} …