The Wikipedia article on Surreal number, consulted for the origin of Conway's construction from his analysis of the Go endgame.
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Surreal Number (Wikipedia)
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In mathematics, the surreal number system is a totally ordered proper class containing not only the real numbers but also infinite and infinitesimal numbers, respectively larger or smaller in absolute value than any positive real number.
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