Mark Jason Dominus: Starting to understand epsilon-zero
This post is going to be about what infinite ordinal numbers are, and about is in particular. I had a brainwave a while back (18 months now, wow, I have definitely not been blogging enough) and suddenly understood much better than I did before. I have several related ideas here and I am going to try to write one blog post about each of them, instead of one gigantic blog post about all of them together that I never finish. I really like the ordinal numbers. For some reason I was repeatedly exposed to the infinite cardinals as a child and, while they are pleasingly mysterious, they're also…
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