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authorGregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>2016-02-08 17:59:14 (GMT)
committerGregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>2016-02-08 17:59:14 (GMT)
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Clarify "cardinality of" as "number of elements in" as many readers do
not have a math vocabulary.
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@@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ operations:
+-------------------------------+------------+---------------------------------+
| Operation | Equivalent | Result |
+===============================+============+=================================+
-| ``len(s)`` | | cardinality of set *s* |
+| ``len(s)`` | | number of elements in set *s*
+| | | (cardinality) |
+-------------------------------+------------+---------------------------------+
| ``x in s`` | | test *x* for membership in *s* |
+-------------------------------+------------+---------------------------------+