Re: At Last! The voice of Reason!

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From: ed... Gerald Edgar
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1990 13:09

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J. H. Conway's book "On Numbers and Games" is in two parts.  The last
part is called "First Part".  That is preceded by a part called
"Zeroth Part".

I guess this is in keeping with the numbers discussed in the book, since
they clearly begin with zero, not one.
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  Gerald A. Edgar          
  Department of Mathematics             Bitnet:    EDGAR@OHSTPY
  The Ohio State University             Internet:  ed...@mps.ohio-state.edu
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