Talk:Ordinal collapsing function

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I think this is a joke: http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/05/27/0258245/Sudden-Demand-For-Logicians-On-Wall-Street

"In an unexpected development for the depressed market for mathematical logicians, Wall Street has begun quietly and aggressively recruiting proof theorists and recursion theorists for their expertise in applying ordinal notations and ordinal collapsing functions to high-frequency algorithmic trading...."

69.228.170.24 (talk) 06:04, 27 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

Yes, all my sources assure me it's a joke, and nobody has stepped up to provide evidence that infinite ordinals are used in high-frequency trading. John Baez (talk) 21:04, 24 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

and others and beyond

and others and beyond