On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:19 PM, John M. Dlugosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not sure. A quick reading indicates that ⋆ℝ contains "infinitely large" > numbers that maintain the properties of addition, but that is not the same > as "infinity". Well *R is a field that has infinitely large and small numbers and contains R. Surreal numbers are in turn kind of a completion of ordinals. You can complete de complex plane with a single infinity point.... IMO to include something related to infinity you need to stick with some particular model and forget the rest.
