cardinality
Americannoun
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cardinalities
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noun
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maths the property of possessing a cardinal number
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maths logic (of a class) the cardinal number associated with the given class. Two classes have the same cardinality if they can be put in one-to-one correspondence
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The sets presented so far all have the same cardinality.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 13, 2023
In my own past research with young children, it seemed to me that their thinking about numbers was more closely related to Giuseppe Peano's basic concept of “successor” than cardinality or quantity.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 1, 2023
Alternatively, it could be termed something else: cardinality, for example.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2021
This cardinality is actually denoted by ‘c’ and not by the expected .
From Scientific American ● Jan. 23, 2013
But as zero came into the fold, the neat relationship between a number’s cardinality and its ordinality was ruined.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Even if that remains a mystery, it has long been known that there are sets with much larger cardinalities than that of the set of real numbers—even though the real numbers are themselves infinite.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 13, 2023
For example, in addition to the cardinal numbers described here, many other infinite cardinalities lying between ℵ1 and the continuum have been discovered since the 1940s.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2021
The diagram thus comprises 12 uncountable cardinalities of which no more than 10 can be simultaneously different.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2021
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