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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

von Neumann integer A finite von Neumann ordinal. The von Neumann integer N is a finite set with N elements which are the von Neumann integers 0 to N-1. Thus 0 = = 1 = 0 = 2 = 0, 1 = , 3 = 0, 1, 2 = , , , ... The set of von Neumann integers is infinite, even though each of its elements is finite. [Origin of name?] (1995-03-30)