Set intersection

As explained in Julia as a Second Language

Set intersection is the operation that produces the elements shared by two or more sets.

Set intersection produces a new set containing only the elements shared by two or more sets. In Julia, write it as ∩ or call intersect; it acts like logical AND because an element must belong to every intersected set. section 13.3

Use intersection when a result must satisfy multiple membership conditions:

• Find pictures of Bob taken in either Spain or Greece with Bob ∩ (Spain ∪ Greece). section 13.3
• Find items shared by two sets with intersect(A, B) or A ∩ B. section 13.3
• Combine several criteria by intersecting intermediate results, such as (bob ∪ eve) ∩ joe. section 13.3

Finding shared values

With A = Set([1, 2, 4, 6]) and B = Set([1, 3, 5, 6]), A ∩ B returns the set containing 1 and 6. The function form, intersect(A, B), returns the same result. For caption sets, bob ∩ joe finds "Joe and Bob in Florida".

Figure 13.2 Venn diagrams helping explain set operations

A Venn diagram makes the result intuitive: shade only the overlapping region of the sets. section 13.3

How Julia as a Second Language covers it

How deep it goes

Explains the definition, Boolean analogy, Julia syntax, Venn-diagram intuition, and combined examples, but not implementation internals.

Examples

Demonstrates shared photo captions, numeric sets, combined people searches, Venn diagrams, and product-criteria matching.

What it assumes

Assumes basic collections and membership, while clarifying how sets differ from arrays and how set operations work.

What you can do after

Apply it via Julia's ∩ operator or intersect function to retrieve values shared across sets.

How it connects

Connects set intersection with Boolean logic, union, set difference, arrays, relational databases, and SQL inner joins.

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Related concepts

• setuses · A set is a collection of unique elements in which membership is determined by whether an element is present, not by duplicate occurrences.
• set operationkind of · A set operation combines, compares, or transforms sets according to the membership of their elements.
• set differencecontrasts with · Set difference is the set of elements that belong to one set but not to another.
• inner joinequivalent to · An inner join is a relational operation that returns combinations of rows only when the join condition matches records in both input relations.

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