On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 10:29:15AM -0700, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: > The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > > The infinite thread > > Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at > > least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack > > surreal numbers into Perl 6.1 then that would be cool. > > Care to explain what those are, O great math teacher?
Disclaimer, I am no math theacher. :) This is a very interesting class of number that can be used to modelize games. It has designed by the _other_ Conway, the one of game of life fame. The expression "surreal number" was coined by Knuth. For more info, the wikipedia is your friend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_number For the full story, read the book "Numbers and Games". I have ordered it a few days ago so I can't comment on it. > Brent "Dax" Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- stef
