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

A group in which any decreasing chain of distinct subgroups terminates after a finite number.

If the average number of envelopes per pigeonhole is a, then some pigeonhole will have at least a envelopes. Similarly, there must be a pigeonhole with at most a envelopes.

The number of inward directed graph edges from a given graph vertex in a directed graph.

The word "spectrum" confusingly has a number of unrelated meanings in various branches of mathematics.

A busy beaver is an n-state, 2-color Turing machine which writes a maximum number Sigma(n) of 1s before halting (Rado 1962; Lin and Rado 1965; Shallit 1998). Alternatively, ...

The number of ways of folding a strip of stamps has several possible variants. Considering only positions of the hinges for unlabeled stamps without regard to orientation of ...

The number of data points which fall within a given class in a frequency distribution.

The number of single operations (of addition, subtraction, and multiplication) required to complete an algorithm.

Maximize the number of cookies you can cut from a given expanse of dough (Hoffman 1998, p. 173).