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equinumeroso

English translation: equinumerous

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Spanish term or phrase:equinumeroso
English translation:equinumerous
Entered by: Tracey

16:25 Oct 9, 2003
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Mathematics & Statistics / Mathematics
Spanish term or phrase: equinumeroso
Hi, This is from a mathematics text. Could somebody please help me with the translation of "equinumeroso". The context is below. Thanks!

Dos conjuntos abstractos pueden estar en correspondencia uno-a-uno entre ellos y sin embargo esto no significa que sean "equinumerosos" porque bien puede ocurrir que uno de ellos esté contenido como subconjunto propio del otro.
Tracey
Mexico
Local time: 11:40
It means that...
Explanation:
...they have the same number of elements.

If you want a translation go safe with "equinumerous"
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Leonardo Parachú
Local time: 14:40
Grading comment
Thank you very much for your help.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +3It means that...
Leonardo Parachú
5 +2equally numerous
rhandler


  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
It means that...


Explanation:
...they have the same number of elements.

If you want a translation go safe with "equinumerous"


    Reference: http://hhtp://www.mathworld.wolfram.com/Equinumerous.html
Leonardo Parachú
Local time: 14:40
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you very much for your help.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  SusyZ
3 mins
  -> thanks Susy
agree  Joseph Brazauskas: Yes, 'equinumerous'. It's rare, but it does exist in English.
20 mins
  -> thanks Joseph
agree  Nikki Graham: yes, equinumerous, but please put your answer in the correct place
2 hrs
  -> thank you Nikki, I´ll do my best but it feels as if sometimes the asker doesn´t need only the translation.
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
equally numerous


Explanation:
Algunos ejemplos y referencias, en este contexto:

ALGEBRAIC FORMS
... meet with co-gredient and contragedient quantities, and we have in general the following
definitions: — (i) " If two equally numerous sets of quantities x, y ...
78.1911encyclopedia.org/A/AL/ALGEBRAIC_FORMS.htm

[PDF]Cardinality, Counting, and Equinumerosity
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... 13 ignores or is indifferent to the fact that the cardinal numerons representing two equally numerous sets are identical precisely because both sets have been ...
emerson.fas.harvard.edu/heck/pdf/counting.pdf


Cyclitol Recommendations I-1 to I-5
... more numerous;. (iii) if the sets are equally numerous and one of them
can be denoted by lower numbers, to that set;. (iv) to substituents ...
www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/iupac/cyclitol/I1t5.html




    Reference: http://78.1911encyclopedia.org/A/AL/ALGEBRAIC_FORMS.htm
    Reference: http://emerson.fas.harvard.edu/heck/pdf/counting.pdf
rhandler
Local time: 14:40
Native speaker of: Portuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Joseph Brazauskas
16 mins
  -> Thank you, Joseph
agree  Antonella DI FAZIO (X): ok
17 mins
  -> Grazzie, Antonella
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