Sets That Share Some Elements But Not Disjoint

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Treadstone 71

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Jan 11, 2006

Is there a special term for sets that are not contained in one another, but are not disjoint? That is, they share some elements but have elements in either that are not in the other.

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Jan 11, 2006

sets with non-empty intersection

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Jan 11, 2006

"overlapping" sets.

Treadstone 71

Jan 11, 2006

Yes! Overlapping will do. thanks.

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