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                      Cardinal

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                      The cardinality of a set is a measure of the "number of elements of the set", known as cardinal. Thus, this function returns the "size" of a set. This function works with rings and fields. For finite sets, use length.

                      Syntax

                      cardinal(Ring | Field)
                      

                      Description

                      Returns the cardinal of a ring or field.

                      
                      

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