John Conway on Surreal Numbers

Talking at University of Toronto four years ago. This should be a lot more fun than Donald Knuth's godawful "novel" about it. Fucking hell that was excruciating to read!

Here's a Numberphile video on numbers:

See What problems would be solved if a “Largest Natural Number” existed? What problems would arise?

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