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- From: edgar@math.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: transfinite real numbers? (...probably not. :( )
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 15:03:37 -0500
- Organization: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Math.
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- Keywords: well defined?
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- * As Cantor claimed, his transfinite numbers exist concretely. I wonder if
- * a process similar to the construction of real number (e.g.Dedekind cut)
- * can be extended.
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- This sounds like J. H. Conway's "surreal numbers". His text on it is
- called _On Numbers and Games_. (Part Zero is on numbers.)
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