SOLUTION: 8) A student says that a finite set of numbers is any set that has a smallest element. How do you respond?

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Question 176322: 8) A student says that a finite set of numbers is any set that has a smallest element. How do you respond?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) About Me  (Show Source):
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My set is the set of all numbers with values between zero and one, inclusively.
The smallest element is zero and the largest element is one but there are an infinite number of elements in my set.
The assertion is proved false.