singleton
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set with exactly one element
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- set
- Followed by
- unordered pair
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- set cardinality
- 1
- different from
- singleton pattern
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- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
In mathematics, a singleton (also known as a unit set or one-point set) is a set with exactly one element. For example, the set
{ 0 }
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “singleton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.