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High School Set Theory Using Technology

Authors: Timothy W. Jones

Simple set theory problems of finding unions, intersections, and complements of simple sets consisting of integers and single letters is not a trivial exercise to automate with technology. It can be done using TI-Basic programming in the case of sets consisting of positive integers. As a TI-84 doesn't have associative arrays or just arrays for that matter doing the same for single letters of the alphabet is just about impossible. But the task can be done in Python pretty elegantly. Why bother? Well the next evolution is to see the need and power of a database and its structured query language (SQL). This tie-in of basic set theory and databases seems to never be made. It is an important connection.

Comments: 12 Pages. I added figures giving the complete code for the program. Thanks for any patience.

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[v1] 2022-09-07 14:15:53
[v2] 2022-10-26 07:15:33

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