What does omega stand for in set cardinality?

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The cardinality of set of [N][tex]\omega[/tex] . what does omega stands for?
 
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This seems a bit out of the blue, I never seen something like that but could it by any chance be referring to [itex]X^Y=\{f : Y \rightarrow X \}[/itex] ?
 
so is omega the same as aleph not. and in this case it would be aleph not to the power aleph not which gives aleph not?
 
saadsarfraz said:
so is omega the same as aleph not. and in this case it would be aleph not to the power aleph not which gives aleph not?

omega's cardinality is aleph naught. But omega is an ordinal, while aleph naught is a cardinal.
 
Usually the notation [itex][N]^{\omega}[/itex] denotes the collection of subsets of N of size [itex]\omega[/itex], i.e.:

[tex][N]^{\omega} = \{ X \subseteq N : |X| = \omega \}[/tex]