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Are gaps and loopy games interchangeable in the Surreal Numbers?

The class of surreal numbers (commonly called $No$) is not complete: it contains gaps. Some people have studied the "Dedekind completion" of the surreal numbers in order to do limits and ...
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Are Conway's combinatorial games the "monster model" of any familiar theory?

This is related to this question about a "mother of all" groups, and so seemed like it'd fit in better at MO than MSE. If I understand the answer to that question correctly, the surreal numbers have ...
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Are Surreal Numbers the same as Trans-series?

I recently found the paper of Berarducci + Mantova [1, 2] saying that surreal numbers are equivalent to trans-series. These are very different objects: trans-series are used in physics to correct, ...