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Venn diagram

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Also known as set diagram

diagram that shows all possible logical relations between a collection of sets

AI overview

A Venn diagram is a visual tool that uses overlapping circles or shapes to show how different groups of things relate to each other and what they have in common. It helps people quickly see which items belong to one group, multiple groups, or none of the groups being compared.

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Named after
John Venn
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Venn diagram showing Greek, Latin and Cyrillic letters.svg
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Venn diagrams
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Karnaugh map
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Encyclopedic overview

Venn diagram showing the uppercase glyphs shared by the Greek (upper left), Latin (upper right), and Russian Cyrillic (bottom) alphabets

A Venn diagram is a widely used diagram style that shows the logical relation between sets, popularized by John Venn (1834–1923) in the 1880s. The diagrams are used to teach elementary set theory, and to illustrate simple set relationships in probability, logic, statistics, linguistics and computer science. A Venn diagram uses simple closed curves on a plane to represent sets. The curves are often circles or ellipses.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Venn diagram” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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