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From context all the numbers are cardinal numbers since we are talking about the size of a set (i.e. the set of different regular polytypes in each dimension).
by poizan42 9y ago
From context all the numbers are cardinal numbers since we are talking about the size of a set (i.e. the set of different regular polytypes in each dimension). Also from context the infinity here must be countable, so indeed it must be the sequence "1, 1, \aleph _{0}, 5, 6, 3, 3, 3...". You don't need to spell everything out explicitly as long as it is clear from the context.
If we want to get really formal, then what we have is a mapping from the natural numbers into equivalence classes of sets under the bijection equivalence relation.
- johnhenry 9y agoHow do we know that the infinity is countable from the context?
- poizan42 9y agoWell, the argument is that for any natural number n we can make an n-gon. So we have a one-to-one correspondence between natural numbers and dimension 2 polytypes, so by definition the cardinality of that set is aleph zero