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With these definitions, the gcd or lcm of infinitely many natural numbers (or supernatural numbers) is a supernatural number. We can also extend the usual
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There is no natural way to add supernatural numbers, but they can be multiplied, with
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of supernatural numbers; primes other than 2 and 3 are omitted for simplicity.
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then we recover the positive integers. Slightly less intuitively, if all
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Supernatural numbers are used to define orders and indices of
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can also be generalized for supernatural numbers, by defining
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Supernatural numbers also arise in the classification of
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and subgroups, in which case many of the theorems from
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order functions to supernatural numbers by defining
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may be too technical for most readers to understand
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Hasse diagram
lattice
mathematics
natural numbers
Ernst Steinitz
field theory
formal
product
prime numbers
infinity
least common multiple
greatest common divisor
p {\displaystyle p} -adic
profinite groups
finite group theory
algebraic extensions
finite field
uniformly hyperfinite algebras
Profinite integer
Steinitz, Ernst
"Algebraische Theorie der Körper"
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American Mathematical Society

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