Surreal number
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surreal-number-189-17064523
title:
Surreal number
text:
In mathematics, the surreal number system is a totally ordered proper class containing not only the real numbers but also infinite and infinitesimal numbers, respectively larger or smaller in absolute value than any positive real number. Research on the Go endgame by John Horton Conway led to the original definition and construction of surreal numbers. Conway's construction was introduced in Donald Knuth's 1974 book Surreal Numbers: How Two Ex-Students Turned On to Pure Mathematics and Found Tot
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Generalization of the real numbers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_number
date created:
2001-09-26T16:34:07Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T11:32:39Z
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