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Successor

For any ordinal number , the successor of is (Ciesielski 1997, p. 46). The successor of an ordinal number is therefore the next ordinal, .

See also

Limit Ordinal, Ordinal Number

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References

Ciesielski, K. Set Theory for the Working Mathematician. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Successor." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Successor.html

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