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Surreal numbers

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Numbers, Surreal

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Number theory

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Nombres surréels
surreal number Label from public data source Wikidata
Surreal numbers

Sources

found: Work cat.: Gonshor, H. An introduction to the theory of surreal numbers, 1986: p. 3(a surreal number is a function from an initial segment of the ordinals into the set (+,⁻), i.e. informally, an ordinal sequence consisting of pluses and minuses which terminate)

found: Knuth, D.E. Surreal numbers, c1974.

notfound: CompuMath cit. index;Math. subj. classif.;James math. dict.;Encyc. dict. math.;Eisenreich, G. Mathematik, 1983;McGraw-Hill dict. sci. tech.;Hennepin

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1987-01-06: new

1998-09-10: revised

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