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- 'Surreal Arithmetic, Lazily',
- John Conway's surreal numbers were aptly named by Knuth.
This note examines how far one can get towards implementing
surreals and the arithmetic operations on them so that they
execute efficiently. Lazy evaluation and recursive data structures
yield a considerable speed up.
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