Was just watching this funny video on Numberphile:
Here is the Surreal Numbers book on archive.org:
https://archive.org/stream/SurrealNumbers/Knuth-SurrealNumbers#page/n7
Got a kick out of the story around this stuff… When Knuth shows the notation for surreal numbers I suddenly remembered a weird program I’d written awhile back.
OVM
I had been out drawing in my sketchbook one sunday (almost 2 years ago) and found myself creating a tiny little system of symbols:
A few days later I speed coded a version of the system. Apparently I had posted a screenshot on FB while I was working on it:
See if you can figure out how it works. I’m sure the code could be cleaned up a bit…
While OVM has little/nothing to do with Surreal Numbers - I’m glad the video reminded me it…