Is there a notation for the last element in a set?

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Say set [tex]p = \left\{p_1, p_2,\ldots,p_n\right\}[/tex], how to notate [tex]p_n[/tex] without saying [tex]p_n[/tex], since I'm not explicitly writing out [tex]p[/tex] like that for a variety of reasons?
Like max([tex]p[/tex]) has the maximal element, what about last([tex]p[/tex]) or something? Is that recognized?
 
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If it is truly a set then no, that last element does not depend on the set, but on your enumeration of the set.
 
My p is a path on a graph from node 1 to 2 to 6, to etc, so here it's ordered in some sense or another...