From: serialhex <serialhex@...>
Date: 2010-12-24T12:45:33+09:00
Subject: Numeric comparison with nil - Math masochists only!!

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Alright, i'm trying to do three things at once, and I'm almost succeeding.
 The first thing is learn Ruby, the second thing is learn Surreal Numbers,
and the third is to make a Ruby class for Surreal numbers.  :P  My problem
is this:  part of the definition of a surreal number is pretty much a
comparison with nil.  So how would one go about this?  Should I write a <=>
and mixin Comparable? What else should I include to make this easier??  Any
help & suggestions are most welcome!!

And for those of you who are interested and want more info on surreal
numbers, here are some links...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_number
http://www.tondering.dk/claus/surreal.html
http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/goodmath/numbers/surreal_numbers/
http://www.dm.unipi.it/~fornasiero/phd_thesis/thesis_fornasiero_linearized.pdf

thats all of my links to surreal numbers... it kinda sucks that my biggest
hurdle is at the very beggining!! :P

thanks again!

  -hex

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