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Beautiful Bytecodes · Jun 30, 2014

Surreal numbers

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The construction of the Surreal numbers. We’ve all heard of integers, rationals, reals, even complex numbers, but what on earth are surreal numbers? They are a beautiful way of defining a class of numbers which includes all reals, but also ordinal numbers; i.e. all the different infinities and even infinitesimal numbers. Not only this but we get a full system of arithmetic for all these numbers.…

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