ordinal numbers (0 synonym found)

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ordinal number  ยท  cardinal numbers

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Definition of ordinal numbers:

(n) : (grammar) A word that expresses the relative position of an item in a sequence.
(n) : (arithmetic) A natural number used to denote position in a sequence.
(n) : (set theory) Such a number generalised to correspond to any cardinal number (the size of some set); formally, the order type of some well-ordered set of some cardinality a, which represents an equivalence class of well-ordered sets (exactly those of cardinality a) under the equivalence relation "existence of an order-preserving bijection".
Definition of ordinal numbers:

(n) : (grammar) A word that expresses the relative position of an item in a sequence.
(n) : (arithmetic) A natural number used to denote position in a sequence.
(n) : (set theory) Such a number generalised to correspond to any cardinal number (the size of some set); formally, the order type of some well-ordered set of some cardinality a, which represents an equivalence class of well-ordered sets (exactly those of cardinality a) under the equivalence relation "existence of an order-preserving bijection".
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