mdbtxt1
mdbtxt2
Proceed to Safety

Order    

Robert P. Munafo, 2002 Apr 18.



Definition : math. The number of elements in a set.

In mu-ency I use "order" to refer:

- to how many identical or nearly identical pieces there are, when describing rotational symmetry.

- to the level ("first-order", "second-order", etc.) of something that has levels, for example second-order embedded Julia set, first order filament, second-order satellite. This is the only ordinal sense of the word "order" (see also primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary).

- to the number of points in a limit cycle (see connectedness proof).

- in the set theory sense (for example see Continuum).

See also Aleph-0, Aleph-1, Aleph-2, Continuum and 2c.




From the Mandelbrot Set Glossary and Encyclopedia, by Robert Munafo, (c) 1987-2024.

Mu-ency main pageindexrecent changesDEMZ


Robert Munafo's home pages on AWS    © 1996-2024 Robert P. Munafo.    about    contact
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Details here.

This page was written in the "embarrassingly readable" markup language RHTF, and was last updated on 2008 Feb 22. s.27