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On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:22:50 +0100, steve auvache
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A guy called Cantor started[1] the ball rolling back in the 1880s with
his idea of bigger and bigger sets of infinities, which he started to
refer to as 'transfinite' numbers. Lots of clever maths became
possible using them.

In my day they were called Aleph.