Subtle Error in Wikipedia: Dedekind’s number

On Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedekind_number), it is stated that the Dedekind’s number M(n) is the the number of abstract simplicial complexes with n elements.

This is incorrect, at least based on the Wikipedia definition of abstract simplicial complex, which does not allow the empty set as a face.

The correct definition is found in another Wikpedia site: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_simplicial_complex

The number of abstract simplicial complexes on up to n elements is one less than the nth Dedekind number.

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