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A coproduct is a colimit of a discrete diagram: it has injections from each summand and every family of maps out of the summands extends uniquely across it.
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Coproduct in a category
A countable coproduct is indexed by the natural numbers. In the Category of sets it is the disjoint union ∐n∈N​An​.

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