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ALEPH
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'''Aleph''' or '''alef''' has several meanings:
*
Aleph (letter) or Alef, the first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet
*
Aleph (Hebrew), the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet
*
Aleph or Alif (Arabic), the first letter of the Arabic alphabet
* Aleph, a shorthand designation for
Codex Sinaiticus, a 4th-century manuscript of the Bible
In '''science''':
*
Aleph number or cardinality, a measurement of mathematical sets
** aleph null (
), the cardinality of countable
infinite sets
** aleph one (
), the cardinality of certain uncountably infinite sets (if the continuum hypothesis is true, then the set of all real numbers has this cardinality).
*
Aleph (inductive logic programming), an advanced system for inductive logic programming
* ALEPH detector or ALEPH experiment, one of the four detectors of the
Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP) at CERN
*
Alef programming language, the concurrent programming language used in early editions of Plan 9
In '''popular culture''':
* ''
Aleph (book)'', a short story by author
Georg Brandes
*
Aleph (Buddhist group), a religious sect in Japan formerly known as Aum Shinrikyo
* ''
Aleph One (computer game)'', an ongoing project related to the computer game series Marathon
* "
The Aleph", a short story by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges
*
Aleph kernel was an operating system kernel, notable primarily for being one of the steps in the evolution of Mach
*Members of the
Aleph Zadik Aleph
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see
Aleph(CERN)