Solution

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If are countable, choose enumerations and map each element of to the first pair at which it occurs. Since is countable, the union is countable.
A periodic function of period is determined by its values on a complete residue system. Thus all periodic functions form a countable union over of the countable sets , and are countable.
The set of bijections is uncountable. Indeed, each binary sequence determines a bijection that swaps and exactly when its th bit is one. This is an injection from the uncountable set of binary sequences.

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