Surreal Birthdays and Their Arithmetic

DOI10.1080/0025570X.2023.2205819MaRDI QIDQ6088728zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Matthew Roughan

Publication date 16 November 2023

Published in Mathematics Magazine (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.10373

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordered fields (12J15)

Abstract: Surreal numbers are created recursively, with the "birthday" being the depth of the recursion. Birthday arithmetic describes how birthdays of surreal numbers are transformed by standard arithemetic operations. This paper shows that birthday arithmetic follows simple rules.

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