Indexed Family - Operations On Families

Operations On Families

Index sets are often used in sums and other similar operations. For example, if (ai)iI is a family of numbers, the sum of all those numbers is denoted by

When (Ai)iI is a family of sets, the union of all those sets is denoted by

Likewise for intersections and cartesian products.

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