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Jun 24, 2017 · The term disjoint refers to a collection of subsets, it means that its subsets are disjoint. The term pairwise disjoint refers to a familly of collections of subsets.

Mar 8, 2019 · A "disjoint union" is a union of pairwise disjoint sets; one does not say "pairwise disjoint union". To corroborate my point of view, here is a citation from Halmos:

Mar 9, 2019 · Typically, pairwise disjoint means that no two sets in the collection have a member in common. The answer to your first question is no, in fact each pair of distinct subsets has a …

Clearly, collection of open intervals is a base for the standard topology. Hence any open set in $\mathbb {R}$ can be written as countable union of open intervals. If any two of exploited …

Mar 7, 2018 · With that definition, disjoint sets are necessarily mutually exclusive, but mutually exclusive events aren't necessarily disjoint. Consider points in the square with each coordinate …

Jun 9, 2016 · Define the disjoint permutation. (I'm guessing it's referring to say when two permutations are disjoint?). Give an example of two permutations that are disjoint and two that …

Sep 24, 2018 · The following is the definition of disjoint union spaces in John Lee's "Introduction to Topological Manifolds": Let $ (X_ {\alpha})_ {\alpha\in A}$ be an indexed family of nonempty …

Feb 4, 2021 · The term disjoint may serve as a shortcut either for pairwise disjoint or collectionwise disjoint depending on the used convention (but obviously not both at the same …

Jun 20, 2016 · Two events are disjoint, or exclusive, if their intersection is an empty set, which in turn infers it to have zero probability. The intersection of disjoint events is impossible.