The number of elements #A of a finite set A is the unique n in the natural numbers with zero for which {1,...,n} can be mapped bijectively onto A.
In the setting of The Natural Numbers and the Natural Numbers with Zero: Arithmetic, Order, Induction and Recursion, let be a finite set, and let be as in Intervals of Natural Numbers §segment.
The number of elements of , written , is the unique for which there is a bijection from onto , given by Finite Sets: the Pigeonhole Principle, Uniqueness of the Length, Subsets, Unions, Products, Images, Bounded Sets of Natural Numbers, Extreme Elements, Sets of Maps, Finite Unions and Finite Choice §unique.
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