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Anonymous Wed Feb 29 18:49:07 2012 No.4419172 [Reply] [Original]

/sci/ is Ordinal arithmetic worth learning?

My professor claims he makes you got insane...

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 29 18:50:07 2012 No.4419177 You've already learned it; your idea that you have not is a delusion.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 29 18:51:07 2012 No.4419180 File: 71 KB, 1021x1027, 1327586937932.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4419177 what

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 29 18:51:07 2012 No.4419181 Yeah, if only to get a good idea of how the rationals and reals relate to each other, and what it means to say one infinite set is "larger" than another.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 29 18:54:30 2012 No.4419190 <div class="math">1+\omega=\omega = \! \! \! \! \! \| \; \; \omega +1</div>

>>	Carl Sagan !SAGAN7mVOk Wed Feb 29 18:55:39 2012 No.4419192 >>4419190 >\! \! \! \! \! \| \; \; Because \neq is too mainstream.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 29 18:59:10 2012 No.4419202 >>4419192 lol... also, testing something <span class="math"> \not = [/spoiler]

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 29 19:04:34 2012 No.4419224 >>4419181 That would be cardinal arithmetic, not ordinal.