{"id":544,"date":"2018-08-19T09:29:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T16:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/?p=3274"},"modified":"2018-08-19T09:29:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T16:29:26","slug":"ovm-pseudo-algebra-and-surreal-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/?p=544","title":{"rendered":"OVM Pseudo-Algebra and Surreal Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was just watching this funny video on Numberphile:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mPn2AdMH7UQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here is the Surreal Numbers book on archive.org:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/SurrealNumbers\/Knuth-SurrealNumbers#page\/n7\" target=\"blank\">https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/SurrealNumbers\/Knuth-SurrealNumbers#page\/n7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Got a kick out of the story around this stuff&#8230; When Knuth shows the notation for surreal numbers I suddenly remembered a weird program I&#8217;d written awhile back.<\/p>\n<h2>OVM<\/h2>\n<p>I had been out drawing in my sketchbook one sunday (almost 2 years ago) and found myself creating a tiny little system of symbols:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/imgs\/ovm.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A few days later I speed coded a version of the system. Apparently I had posted a screenshot on FB while I was working on it:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/imgs\/ovm-day.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See if you can figure out how it works. I&#8217;m sure the code could be cleaned up a bit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe height='691' scrolling='no' title='O.V.M' src='\/\/codepen.io\/ZevanRosser\/embed\/WgedWx\/?height=691&#038;theme-id=5318&#038;default-tab=js,result&#038;embed-version=2' frameborder='no' allowtransparency='true' allowfullscreen='true' style='width: 100%;'>See the Pen <a href='https:\/\/codepen.io\/ZevanRosser\/pen\/WgedWx\/'>O.V.M<\/a> by Zevan Rosser (<a href='https:\/\/codepen.io\/ZevanRosser'>@ZevanRosser<\/a>) on <a href='https:\/\/codepen.io'>CodePen<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While OVM has little\/nothing to do with Surreal Numbers &#8211; I&#8217;m glad the video reminded me it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was just watching this funny video on Numberphile: Here is the Surreal Numbers book on archive.org: https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/SurrealNumbers\/Knuth-SurrealNumbers#page\/n7 Got a kick out of the story around this stuff&#8230; When Knuth shows the notation for surreal numbers I suddenly remembered a weird program I&#8217;d written awhile back. OVM I had been out drawing in my sketchbook one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,94],"tags":[190,122,191],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-misc","tag-algebra","tag-math","tag-numbers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionsnippet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}