A Cartesian product of sets 1 × 2 × ⋯ × is a set consisting of all possible sequences of elements where the th element is chosen from . × = , ∈ , ∈ } 1 × 2 × ⋯ × = 1 , 2 … , ∈ }
⋯ × is a set consisting of all possible sequences of elements where the th element is chosen from . × = , ∈ , ∈ } 1 × 2 × ⋯ × = 1 , 2 … , ∈ } How many elements are in × ? Cartesian Product: Getting a set of -tuples from sets
⋯ × = 1 , 2 … , ∈ } If ⊆ , then describes a `relation’ between some elements from 1 , … , Example: = { , , , ∣ person drove car in street on day } Important special case: when = 2 called binary relations.