• done by Wacław Sierpiński: Leçons sur les nombres transfinis (1928 book) much expanded into Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers (1958, 2nd ed. 1965). Any finite...
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    is the third largest city in the country"), in which case they serve as ordinal numbers. Natural numbers are sometimes used as labels—also known as nominal...
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  • les nombres transfinis, but his 1958 book on the topic was completely rewritten and significantly longer. A second edition of Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers...
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  • inaccessible. An ordinal is a weakly inaccessible cardinal if and only if it is a regular ordinal and it is a limit of regular ordinals. (Zero, one, and...
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    the existence of an infinity of infinities. He defined the cardinal and ordinal numbers and their arithmetic. Cantor's work is of great philosophical interest...
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    The first pope who chooses a unique name is not usually identified by an ordinal, John Paul I being the exception. Antipopes are treated as pretenders,...
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    S (corresponding to the limit ordinal case) or by appending b(S) to the "last" S (corresponding to the successor ordinal case). This proof shows that actually...
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    removing all words which were considered politically incorrect. Khmer ordinal numbers are formed by placing the word ទី [tiː] in front of a cardinal...
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  • Retrieved 4 December 2022. Mazaudon & Lacito, 2002, "Les principes de construction du nombre dans les langues tibeto-birmanes", in François, ed. La Pluralité...
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    communion for laity as well as clergy in both kinds, of bread and wine. The Ordinal of 1550 replaced the divine ordination of priests with a government-run...
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