Description: Define class difference,
also called relative complement. Definition
5.12 of [TakeutiZaring] p. 20.
For example,
          (ex-dif 25921). Contrast this
operation with union   (df-un 3420) and intersection
  (df-in 3422). Several notations are used in the
literature; we chose the convention used in Definition 5.3 of
[Eisenberg] p. 67 instead of the more
common minus sign to reserve the
latter for later use in, e.g., arithmetic. We will use the
terminology " excludes
" to mean . We will
use " is
removed from "
to mean  
i.e. the
removal of an element or equivalently the exclusion of a singleton.
(Contributed by NM, 29-Apr-1994.) |