into a directed set by writing if and only if contains For every and :
* since contains itself.
* if and then and which implies Thus
* because and since both and we have and

Finite subsets

The set of all finite subsets of a set is directed with respect to since given any two their union is an upper bound of and in This particular directed set is used to define the sum of a generalized series of an -indexed collection of numbers

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