The small Veblen ordinal or or is the limit of ordinals that can be described using a version of Veblen functions with finitely many arguments. It is the ordinal that measures the strength of Kruskal's theorem. It is also the ordinal type of a certain ordering of rooted trees (Jervell 2005).
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“A small garden, figs, a little cheese, and, along with this, three or four good friends—such was luxury to Epicurus.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)