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{ } — a set

Curly braces list the members of a set: a collection of values with no order and no repeats. Read {0, 1} as "the set of 0 and 1".

{0,1}\{0, 1\} is the set that contains exactly zero and one. A raised size after it works like Rd\mathbb{R}^d: {0,1}∣V∣\{0, 1\}^{|V|} is every vector of length ∣V∣|V| whose entries are each 00 or 11. A one-hot vector is one of these.

The …\dots inside braces means "continue the obvious pattern": {1,2,…,d/2}\{1, 2, \dots, d/2\} is every whole number from 1 to d/2d/2.

Example

{1,2,…,5}={1,2,3,4,5}\{1, 2, \dots, 5\} = \{1, 2, 3, 4, 5\}

The dots fill in the missing numbers.

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