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by kazinator 1388 days ago
An empty set is countable; it has an empty mapping to the natural numbers. Its cardinality is zero.
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And its ordinalitiy is also 0.

Standard construction of ordinals is that each ordinal is the set of all its predecessors. (0 has no predecessors , hence 0 is the empty set.) (And so finite ordinals have the same ordinaliity as cardinality).

Show me a mathematical text where ‘ordinality’ is defined.