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Is an empty set a subset of itself?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 9/17/2019

Yes it is. Everything in the empty set (which is nothing of course) is also in the empty set. If it's not in the empty set, it's not in the empty set. The empty set has no propersubsets, though, or subsets that are different from it.

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