On Feb 16, 9:39 pm, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:47:39 -0800, Mark Dickinson wrote: > > I've no clue where your (Steven's) idea that 'all ordinals are surreal > > numbers' came from. They're totally unrelated. > > Tell that to John Conway.
Apparently I also get stupid when I haven't had any dinner. Or perhaps dinner has nothing to do with it. I was thinking of the nonstandard reals. You're absolutely right, and I hereby forfeit my Ph.D. (for the second time today, as it happens). Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
