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i was confused about what the cardinality of the set {1,2,2,3,3,1,1,1} is?
is it 8 or is it 3?
 

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Every element of a set is unique, therefore {1,2,2,3,3,1,1,1} is the same as {1,2,3}.
 
There is an alternate concept of "multi-set" if you want to take repeats into account.
 

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