# The Absolute Arithmetic Continuum and the Unification Of all Numbers Great and Small

@article{Ehrlich2012TheAA,
title={The Absolute Arithmetic Continuum and the Unification Of all Numbers Great and Small},
author={Philip Ehrlich},
journal={The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic},
year={2012},
volume={18},
pages={1 - 45}
}
• Philip Ehrlich
• Published 1 March 2012
• Mathematics
• The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic
Abstract In his monograph On Numbers and Games, J. H. Conway introduced a real-closed field containing the reals and the ordinals as well as a great many less familiar numbers including −ω, ω/2, 1/ω, and ω − π to name only a few. Indeed, this particular real-closed field, which Conway calls No, is so remarkably inclusive that, subject to the proviso that numbers—construed here as members of ordered fields—be individually definable in terms of sets of NBG (von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel set theory…

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