Infinite Numbers
Main article: cardinal number See also: large cardinal, Mahlo cardinal, and totally indescribable cardinalAlthough all these numbers above are very large, they are all still finite. Certain fields of mathematics define infinite and transfinite numbers. For example, aleph-null is the cardinality of the infinite set of natural numbers, and aleph-one is the next greatest cardinal number. is the cardinality of the reals. The proposition that is known as the continuum hypothesis.
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