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Definition 7.3.2: Outer Measure

If A is any subset of R, define the (Lebesgue) outer measure of A as:
m*(A) = inf { l(An) }
where the infimum is taken over all countable collections of open intervals An such that A An and l(An) is the standard length of the interval An.
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