From: Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:58:40 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Clarify "cardinality of" as "number of elements in" as many readers do
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Clarify "cardinality of" as "number of elements in" as many readers do
not have a math vocabulary.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 774b0c6230a5..e491fd26daa1 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -3828,7 +3828,7 @@ 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