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successor (Definition)

Given a set $S$ the successor of $S$ is the set $S \cup \{S\}$ One often denotes the successor of $S$ by $S'$




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This is version 2 of successor, born on 2001-10-19, modified 2004-02-02.
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AMS MSC03E10 (Mathematical logic and foundations :: Set theory :: Ordinal and cardinal numbers)

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