Meaning of cardinal number | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A number used to denote quantity; a counting number; a cardinal.
2. A generalized kind of number used to denote the size of a set, including infinite sets.
3. A word that expresses a countable quantity; a cardinal numeral.

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Examples

“The smallest cardinal numbers are 0, 1, 2, and 3.”

“The cardinal number “three” can be represented as “3” or “three”.”

“This cardinal number is the smallest of the infinite cardinal numbers; it is the one to which Cantor has appropriated the Hebrew Aleph with the suffix 0, to distinguish it from larger infinite cardinals. Thus the name of the smallest of infinite cardinals is ℵ₀.”

““Three” is a cardinal number, while “third” is an ordinal number.”

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