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Some quick googling turns up http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0097316572900635 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/00973165729...,
by ikeboy 10y ago
Some quick googling turns up http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0097316572900635 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/00973165729..., which cites a French paper in footnote 9 as the origin of the name surordinal, almost certainly the one Knuth refers to. Someone want to tell him?
>In 1967, writing in French, Pierre Jullien [9] generalized the concept of
an ordinal slightly to what he called a “surordinal.” He announced several
results, among which is the statement that the class of “surordinaux” are
wqo.
>9. P. JULLIEN, Theorie des relations. - Sur la comparaison des types d’ordres disperses, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Se’r. A 264 (1967), 594-595.
- vanderZwan 10y agoWrite a comment under the video, the numberphile people will definitely see it and perhaps pass it on
- ikeboy 10y agoDone.
- vanderZwan 10y agoIt's not showing under recent comments for me?
- ikeboy 10y agoThat's weird, only shows up for me. I just reposted without the link and it does show up in incognito, so the link must have filtered it. Youtube comments suck, can't even get paragraphs formatted normally.
- lfowles 10y agoHeh. I was just following along with some Unreal Engine tutorials yesterday. Unfortunately the engine has changed since the tutorials were uploaded, so some kind souls pasted the new C++ code in the comment field. What. A. Mess.