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A CLASSIFICATION OF ORDINAL TOPOLOGIES ¨ VINCENT KIEFTENBELD AND BENEDIKT LOWE Abstract. Ordinals carry a natural topology induced by their linear order. In this note, we classify the homeomorphism types of all ordinal topologies using the Cantor normal form and the notion of the Cantor–Bendixson rank of a point. Let be a linear order on a set X . The order topology on X is generated by the subbase of rays of the