Clarify "cardinality of" as "number of elements in" as many readers do

not have a math vocabulary.

Clarify "cardinality of" as "number of elements in" as many readers do
not have a math vocabulary.
3b5d61fa · Gregory P. Smith · db28718e · 3b5d61fa · 3b5d61fa
Commit 3b5d61fa authored Feb 08, 2016 by Gregory P. Smith
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--- a/Doc/library/sets.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sets.rst
@@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ operations:
 +-------------------------------+------------+---------------------------------+
 | Operation                     | Equivalent | Result                          |
 +===============================+============+=================================+
-| ``len(s)``                    |            | cardinality of set *s*          |
+| ``len(s)``                    |            | number of elements in set *s*
+|                               |            | (cardinality)                   |
 +-------------------------------+------------+---------------------------------+
 | ``x in s``                    |            | test *x* for membership in *s*  |
 +-------------------------------+------------+---------------------------------+

--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -1779,7 +1779,7 @@ The constructors for both classes work the same:
   .. describe:: len(s)
-      Return the cardinality of set *s*.
+      Return the number of elements in set *s* (cardinality of *s*).
   .. describe:: x in s