What Is the Order Type of Countable Ordinals?

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If [tex]\Omega[/tex] is the set of all ordinals, what is the order type of [tex]\Omega[/tex]?
 
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Any answer would suffice, since your question is vacuous -- no set contains all ordinals.
 


Hurkyl is right, no set contains all the ordinals. But the notation [tex]\Omega[/tex] is often used to denote the set of all countable ordinals. That's probably what you mean...