4. Explain how bijection can be used to define the cardinality of an infinite set. Using that idea, show that the cardinality of the set containing all natural numbers (N) and the cardinality of the set containing positive odd numbers are the same.

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4. Explain how bijection can be used to define the cardinality of an infinite set. Using
that idea, show that the cardinality of the set containing all natural numbers (N) and
the cardinality of the set containing positive odd numbers are the same.
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