Beth Numbers
The sequence of beth numbers is defined by setting and . So is the second beth number, beth-one:
The third beth number, beth-two, is the cardinality of the power set of R (i.e. the set of all subsets of the real line):
Read more about this topic: Cardinality Of The Continuum
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