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The Higher Infinite

Akihiro Kanamori

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

John Baez loved it
The Higher Infinite by Akihiro Kanimori. This book is about the whoppingly big infinities that logicians invent. I used to dislike this stuff, because it seemed useless. Now it's just a hobby for me, to stretch my mind.

on usesthis.com · 25 Jul 2013

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.