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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=mathematics">mathematics</a>, a <b>family</b>, or <b>indexed family</b>, is a collection of <a href="page.php?w=Mathematical_object">objects</a>, each associated with an element, known as an <b>index</b>, that belongs to some <a href="page.php?w=index_set">index set</a>.</p>

<p>For example, a family of <a href="page.php?w=real_number">real number</a>s, indexed by the set of <a href="page.php?w=integer">integer</a>s, is a collection of real numbers, where a given function selects one real number for each integer (possibly</p><p>
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