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Cofinal subset (∀p∈P ∃c∈C: p≤c)

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A subset C of an ordered set P is cofinal if every element of P is at most some element of C. For an ordinal, a cofinal subset has the whole ordinal as its supremum.

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  • Cofinality of a linear order
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