In more etymological realizations I think I finally get cardinal and ordinal numbers are named that way.

cardinal represents the cardinality of a set
ordinal represents an ordering of a set

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@chimerror Oh lordy begordy, I have been doing wikicrawls on transfinite ordinals and my head has been hurting in the best way. I still don't really _get_ what ω and Ω and ε₀ are, I just know I like them. XD

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