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A coding of the countable linear orderings

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Associate to any linear ordering ⊲ on the integers the mapping whose value on n is the cardinality of {k<n; kn}: a purely combinatorial characterization for the mappings associated to the well-orderings is established.

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This work was partially supported by a CNRS grant PRC mathématiques and informatique.

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Dehornoy, P. A coding of the countable linear orderings. Studia Logica 49, 585–590 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00370167

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