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@ToddTrimble "chaology" looks more like English Greek to me than "chaosology", which looks like a formation within English, taking the suffix to be "-ology". The reason why I say English Greek is that in Greek, words such as analogy are αναλογια, which would be analogia, so the final y is of purely English origin. Chaology comes from "chaos" and "logos" in an analogous way to how topology comes from "topos" and "logos" and genealogy comes from "genea" and "logos". Taking "-ology" as the suffix instead of "-logy" came later.
The natural cognate of "Mächtigkeit" in English is "mightiness", though it seems to have never been used as a translation, "power" being used instead, as pointed out by David Roberts. An example of an old book where it is used is: books.google.dk/… The phrase "power of the continuum" also seems to have lasted a bit longer than "power" as a general term for cardinality.
@DavidHarris A set-theoretic analogue of undefined behaviour is asking whether $2^{\aleph_0} = \aleph_1$. This is anything but junk, however -- it's just that the "standard" (i.e. ZFC axioms) does not define cardinal exponentiation.
You'll need infinitely many of the groups to be nontrivial. The denumerable product of the trivial group is the trivial group. Also, it seems that the group structure isn't playing any role here, it's just the fact that a denumerable product of finite sets of cardinality $\geq 2$ is homeomorphic to the Cantor space by Brouwer's characterization of it as a compact metrizable totally disconnected space with no isolated points.
@AryehKontorovich The $\aleph_1$ is intentional. It's a strict inequality. Otherwise the definition of $\kappa$-additivity doesn't work in the definition of a measurable cardinal (the measure is only additive for disjoint families strictly smaller than $\kappa$). Sets of cardinality $< \aleph_1$ are exactly countable sets.
@IosifPinelis I see. The appendix must have been taken out of the second edition. This solves a minor mystery for me, because someone else I told about this a few years ago couldn't find that appendix either.