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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0746.00080.] In the deeply flawed paper under review, the author defines and finds some of the properties of what is there called the Generalized Number System (GNS), without noting that the (GNS) is simply the field \(H(\mathbb{Z},\mathbb{R})\) of formal power series (i.e., the field of formal Laurent series with real coefficients). A vastly more general form of this field was studied by \textit{H. Hahn} in 1907 [S.-Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturw. Kl. Abt. IIa 116, 601-655 (1907; JFM 38.0501.01)]. Knowledge of some bits and pieces of its properties may have been known e.g., to Newton and some of his contemporaries. Not only is the bibliographic research in this paper substandard, but as a result the author was doomed to find, re-prove, and publish as ``new results'' some very well-known, essentially elementary theorems, without knowing these theorems in their far more sweeping, incisive, contemporary form. The author did not cite or appear to know results given in \textit{B. H. Neumann's} excellent paper [On ordered division rings, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 66, 202-252 (1949; Zbl 0035.304)]. The author appears to be aware of only a very few of the many elementary, essentially well-known results on the analysis of formal power series which e.g., the reviewer collected and published in Chapter 7 of his ``Foundations of analysis over surreal number fields'', North-Holland (1987; Zbl 0621.12001). In addition, the author seems to know almost nothing about such relevant topics as real closed fields, valued fields, maximal fields, Hensel's Lemma, and surreal number fields. As a general reference for this subject see e.g., \textit{S. Prieß-Crampe}, Angeordnete Strukturen: Gruppen, Körper, projektive Ebenen (Springer-Verlag, 1983; Zbl 0558.51012). Finally, analysis over some non-archimedean valued fields is developing quickly. It may have some interesting applications to e.g., physics and astronomy. However, some work is still being done by people so dispersed by geography, language, or specific background, working in great isolation, that some do not know much about the very considerable literature on this subject that already exists. The paper under review seems to the reviewer to be a tragic example of such work.