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A set-theoretic term having a number of different meanings. Fraenkel (1953, p. 37) used the term as a synonym for "finite set." However, according to Russell's definition ...

A merge sort (or collation sort) is the combination of two or more ordered lists into a single ordered list (Knuth 1998, p. 158). Merge sorting was one of the first methods ...

A dozen dozen, also called a gross. 144 is a square number and a sum-product number.

The very large number consisting of the number 2 inside a mega-gon.

The number of degrees of freedom in a problem, distribution, etc., is the number of parameters which may be independently varied.

An inaccessible cardinal is a cardinal number which cannot be expressed in terms of a smaller number of smaller cardinals.

A game in which each player has a finite number of moves and a finite number of choices at each move.

B_(p+k)=B_k+B_(k+1) (mod p), when p is prime and B_n is a Bell number.

An integer used to generate a digitaddition. A number can have more than one generator. If a number has no generator, it is called a self number.

In any tree, the number of dissimilar points minus the number of dissimilar lines plus the number of symmetry lines equals 1.