Turn off ZeroDivisionError?

Mark Dickinson dickinsm at gmail.com
Sat Feb 16 21:44:23 EST 2008


On Feb 16, 9:39 pm, Steven D'Aprano <st... at REMOVE-THIS-
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



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