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| | Good Math, Bad Math : Introducing the Surreal Numbers |
 | | Surreal numbers are a beautiful, simple, set-based construction that allows you to create and represent all real numbers, so that they behave properly; and in addition, it allows you to create infinitely large and infinitely small values, and have them... |
 | | Surreal numbers are a beautiful, simple, set-based construction that allows you to create and represent all real numbers, so that they behave properly; and in addition, it allows you to create infinitely large and infinitely small values, and have them behave and interact in a consistent way with the real numbers in their surreal representation. |
 | | Given any surreal number {LR}, the value that it represents is the value between the largest value in L and the smallest value in R with the earliest birthday (or, equivalently, the lowest ordinal). |
| scienceblogs.com /goodmath/2006/08/introducing_the_surreal_number.php (2440 words) |
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