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Ordinals are an extension of the natural numbers. Ordinals can be used to describe the order type of a set. The order type of the natural numbers is the first infinite ordinal, . Ordinals can be added and multiplied. The sum of two ordinals and is the ordinal that describes the order type of a set with order type a concatenated with one of order type b. Warning! Ordinal addition is not commutative. For example , while .
Every ordinal characterizes the order type of the ordered ordinals less than it. For example, has order type .
The smallest ordinal that can't be constructed from by addition, multiplication, and exponentiation is , the first fixed point of the map .