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Re:Cω by mturmon on Sunday March 20, 2011 @10:23PM (#2348127)
I thought it was from this usage:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_uncountable_ordinal

basically going as far as possible in the sequence C, C++, ...

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Re:Cω by cosbynator on Sunday March 20, 2011 @11:08PM (#2348242)
Not to be too pedantic, but little omega is not the first uncountable ordinal (it is countable by definition), it is the first infinite one.
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Re:Cω by mturmon on Monday March 21, 2011 @01:22AM (#2348591)
You know what, you're right (and if I may add, on both counts ;-).

The wikipedia page I referenced, loosely summarized, is referring to an ordinal number with the cardinality aleph-1. The plain omega that I should have referenced has cardinality aleph-0.

Unfortunately, the ordinal I wanted does not have its own wikipedia page. WTF? Merely countable is not notable enough?

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Re:Cω by barista on Monday March 21, 2011 @01:54AM (#2348641)
Some research project about a new language and the top comments are about how weird its name is and how the character looks like a butt? I'm speechless.
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Re:Cω by palish on Sunday March 20, 2011 @11:14PM (#2348266)
Unfortunately, it looks precisely like an ASCII ass.
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Re:Cω by derleth on Sunday March 20, 2011 @11:22PM (#2348295)
> Unfortunately, it looks precisely like an ASCII ass.

In my font, it's wide enough to be a Unicode ass.

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Re:Cω by Bolyuba on Monday March 21, 2011 @06:45AM (#2349140)
Reddit-style thread?
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Re:Cω by eru on Monday March 21, 2011 @06:57AM (#2349164)
You should start your sequence with C--, another popular language in the C family.
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