Proving Cardinality of P(S) > S

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Homework Statement


Prove that the cardinality of ##P(S)## is greater than the cardinality of S, where S is any set.

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It would seem that we could simply define ##T: S \rightarrow P(S)## such that ##T(s) = \{s \}##. This is clearly an injection, so ##|S| \le |P(S)|##. That seemed too easy though, so I feel like I am doing something wrong.
 
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Mr Davis 97 said:
That seemed too easy though, so I feel like I am doing something wrong.
I think you are asked to prove strict inequality of cardinalities.
 
Krylov said:
I think you are asked to prove strict inequality of cardinalities.
So I have to show that there exists no bijection between ##S## and its powerset?
 
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