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Ordinal numbers I
Georg Cantor made many brillant discoveries, but the ones I find the most fascinating are in the realm of infinite sets, especially the Ordinal Numbers.
They are a new kind of numbers with some strange arithmetic rules :
Let the following ordinal numbers:
If we add the five ordinal numbers using all possible 120 permutations and sort them (using the ordinal number order)
- how many different sums can we obtain
- what is the (lowest) value
- what is the value
Answer format: comma delimited
The ordinal numbers are represented using the Cantor Normal Form
w^2+w.3+1
[My timing : < 1 s]
They are a new kind of numbers with some strange arithmetic rules :
Let the following ordinal numbers:
If we add the five
- how many different sums can we obtain
- what is the
- what is the
Answer format: comma delimited
The ordinal numbers are represented using the Cantor Normal Form
- the symbol
is represented with a w - exponentiation is represented with a ^
- the symbol
is represented with a . - all spaces are removed
[My timing : < 1 s]