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serialhex
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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. 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!!
thanks again!
-hex
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. 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!!
thanks again!
-hex