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cardinal number, or
cardinal for short, is what is
commonly called the
number of
elements of a set. In the case of a
finite set, its
cardinal number,...
- into
Cardinal and
Ordinal Numbers (1958, 2nd ed. 1965). Any
finite natural number can be used in at
least two ways: as an
ordinal and as a
cardinal. Cardinal...
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Cardinal or
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Cardinal or The
Cardinal may
refer to: Cardinalidae, a
family of
North and
South American...
- linguistics, and more
precisely in
traditional grammar, a
cardinal numeral (or
cardinal number word) is a part of
speech used to count.
Examples in English...
- In mathematics, the
cardinality of a set is a
measure of the
number of
elements of the set. For example, the set A={2,4,6}{\displaystyle A=\{2,4,6\}}...
- manner, it is
possible to
define a
cardinal number ℵα{\displaystyle \,\aleph _{\alpha }\,} for
every ordinal number α,{\displaystyle \,\alpha \;,} as described...
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field of set theory, a
large cardinal property is a
certain kind of
property of
transfinite cardinal numbers.
Cardinals with such
properties are, as the...
- (five) is a
number,
numeral and digit. It is the
natural number, and
cardinal number,
following 4 and
preceding 6, and is a
prime number. It has garnered...
- size (its
cardinality),
there are many
nonisomorphic well-orderings of any
infinite set, as
explained below.
Whereas the
notion of
cardinal number is ****ociated...
- (cardinality of the
empty set, i.e. 0 elements, where 0 is thus the
smallest cardinal number) in the set of
natural numbers. Today,
different mathematicians use...