It's possible a Venn diagram can have three (or more) sets depicted within them. A set of pupils were asked which sports they played in school, from a list of Football, Hockey, Netball and None.

We could easily trace a wiggly loop through a three-circle diagram ... as beauty and curiosity. Although Venn diagrams initially applied to logic and set theory, the four-circle conundrum raised ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. A Venn diagram can show data sets such as preferences in market research. When sets intersect (overlap), the ...

However, the diagram itself is unlikely to have direct practical applications. “We use two and three-set Venn diagrams for working out simple logical puzzles,” Cameron says. “Beyond that ...

Venn diagrams get tricky when they include more than three sets – here, a fourth set has to be stretched across the other three. (Image: Kopophex/Wikimedia Commons) The stretching method starts ...

April 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of mathematician and philosopher John Venn. You may well be familiar with Venn diagrams ... area called set theory. Set theory is an area ...