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    That's why they use the term interval, not a set, because it is not a set of integers (for which we can calculate a number of elements) but an interval of real numbers on the number line (which has a length). It get clearer when you get to the examples: interval [1, 5] has a length of 4 and a set {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} would have 5 elements.