$C^\omega$ notation for real analytic functions

real-analysis notation

Solution 1:

The idea of the notation is that $\omega$ is the ordinal following all the finite ordinals. It is larger than all of them: being analytic is a bit more than being differentiable to all orders.

I doubt one can trace who first used the notation, really. (Is it at all interesting?)

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