Limit ordinal

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An ordinal that is neither 0 nor a successor. Equivalently, λ = sup{β : β < λ}. The smallest limit ordinal is ω; the next is ω·2. Limit ordinals are the non-trivial case of transfinite recursion and host continuity arguments in ordinal…

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