Element (mathematics)

Element (mathematics)

In mathematics, an element, or member, of a set is any one of the distinct objects that make up that set.

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    We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn a hundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)