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Kunen's use of Countable Transitive Models

Hi, I have a doubt concerning Kunen's exposition of forcing in his classical book (arguably $the$ book on forcing). When dealing with Countable Transitive Models to set up the forcing machinery, ...
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How many closed measure zero sets are needed to cover the real line?

This question assumes familiarity with combinatorial cardinal characteristics of the continuum. Let $\mathcal{E}$ be the $\sigma$-ideal generated by closed measure zero subsets of the real line. It ...
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How many closed measure zero sets are needed to cover the real line, really?

This is a refinement of an earlier question. This question assumes familiarity with combinatorial cardinal characteristics of the continuum. For the reader's convenience, I reproduce below the ...
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