The interval {m,...,n} has (n+1)−m elements; only the empty set has no elements and a singleton has one; injective maps preserve the number of elements and arbitrary maps do not increase it; a proper subset has fewer elements; the numbers of elements of a union and an intersection add up to those of the two sets; and a product has the product number of elements.
In the setting of The Natural Numbers and the Natural Numbers with Zero: Arithmetic, Order, Induction and Recursion, let finite sets be as in Finite Sets §finite, as in The Number of Elements of a Finite Set §cardinality, and intervals and as in Intervals of Natural Numbers §interval and Intervals of Natural Numbers §segment. Intervals, and singletons are finite, and so are subsets, unions, products and images of finite sets, 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 §naturals, 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 §small, 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 §subset, 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 §union and 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 §image. Let and be finite sets and .
, and if , then , the difference in .
if and only if , and for every set .
For every map to a set , , with equality if is injective.
If , then , and only if .
; in particular if and are disjoint.
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