Von neumann integer
mathematics
A finite von Neumann ordinal.
The von Neumann integer N is a finite set with N elements which are the von Neumann integers 0 to N-1. Thus
0 = = 1 = 0 = {} 2 = 0, 1 = {, {}} 3 = 0, 1, 2 = {, {}, {, {}}} …
The set of von Neumann integers is infinite, even though each of its elements is finite.
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(1995-03-30)
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