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= Small Veblen ordinal
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The Small Veblen ordinal is a specific ordinal number associated with a certain class of large cardinals in set theory. It is named after the mathematician Oswald Veblen, who contributed to the field of ordinal analysis. In mathematical terms, ordinals are a generalization of natural numbers used to describe the order type of well-ordered sets.