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Tag Archives: empty set

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What’s your favourite set?

Chalkdust

17 November 2016

A set is a collection of items. Sprinkled throughout Issue 04 of Chalkdust were some of our favourite sets. Here we have collected them together and we’d really love to hear yours. You can write about them at the bottom of this post! Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Front page feature | Tagged Cantor set, empty set, Mandelbrot set | Leave a comment

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