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have the same limit, or both have none. (When you generalise this to a directed sets, you get the same result, but for
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Negligible sets define several useful concepts that can be applied in various situations, such as truth
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may not always be true, but it's false so rarely that this can be ignored for the purposes at hand.
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if they are equal almost everywhere. To make the introductory paragraph precise, then, let
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be negligible if for each ε > 0, there exists a finite or countable collection
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of a negligible set be negligible. For some purposes, we also need this ideal to be a
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that is small enough that it can be ignored for some purpose. As common examples,
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be a measure space, and let negligible sets be the null sets. If
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can be recovered in this way by placing a suitable measure on
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have the same integral, or neither integral is defined.
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This is a special case of the preceding example, using
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