Bill Page <[email protected]> writes:

|          This is not so different than considering the CardinalNumber
| domain as an extension of NonNegativeInteger.  CardinalNumber is not
| used much in FriCAS except as the domain of the operation 'dimension'
| (of VectorSpace, etc.) however it includes a value of Aleph(0) for
| infinite cardinality. 

I have always considered it a weakness that VectorSpace did not use
CardinalNumber for dimension -- even if for all practical purposes
NonNegativeInteger is sufficient and more efficient.  That, in my
opinion, calls for an efficient abstraction, e.g. find a way to
support CardinalNumber and make the common cases as efficient as
NonNegativeInteger.

(please don't mention `subsumption', I don't want to go there.)

-- Gaby

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