The letters in this answer are a set. The complement of that set is all the letters in the alphabet not in the first sentence. So the letter z is in the complement and the letter t is in the set.
Here is another example, consider the all the number between 1 and 100. One set is the numbers 1-50. The complement is the numbers 51-100.
You need to define the universal set or universe of discourse. That is the things we are dealing with. In the first example it was the letters of the English alphabet, in the second it was the number 1-100.
Here is one last example. If the universal set is all people on the planet. Set A might be the people with blue eyes. The complement might be people with any other color eyes.
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An absolute complement is the set which includes exactly the elements belonging to the universal set but not to a given set.
The complement of a subset B within a set A consists of all elements of A which are not in B.
union of setsintersection of setsdifference of setscomplement of setordered pair, ordered n-tupleequality of ordered n-tuplesCartesian product of sets* * * * *The complement of a set is the difference between that set and the Universal set. So the complement is only a special case of a difference.
It is a Venn diagram, named after John Venn - not when!First, you need a universal set, U, usually represented by a rectangle. Inside that rectangle, you have a circular shape representing a set A. Then the complement of A, with respect to U is all of U except for the circle A.
"Set rate 5.75" is an example of an imperative statement.