Counting Number
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A Counting Number is a Natural Number used to count the number of elements in a finite set or a list.
- AKA: Counter.
- Context:
- It can be a Positive Natural Number or a N0 Natural Number.
- See: Natural Number, Finite Set, List.
References
2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Counting
- Counting is the action of finding the number of elements of a finite set of objects. The traditional way of counting consists of continually increasing a (mental or spoken) counter by a unit for every element of the set, in some order, while marking (or displacing) those elements to avoid visiting the same element more than once, until no unmarked elements are left; if the counter was set to one after the first object, the value after visiting the final object gives the desired number of elements. The related term enumeration refers to uniquely identifying the elements of a finite (combinatorial) set or infinite set by assigning a number to each element.