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called Hardy functions. It is related to the fast-growing hierarchy and slow-growing hierarchy.

The Hardy hierarchy was introduced by Stanley S. Wainer in 1972, but the idea of its definition comes from Hardy's 1904 paper, in which Hardy exhibits a set of reals with cardinality .

Definition

Let u be a large countable ordinal such that a fundamental sequence

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