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berekuk | 9 years ago

Technically all numbers are comparable.

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dexterdog|9 years ago

What about imaginary numbers?

pmalynin|9 years ago

You can still compare them, e.g two numbers could or couldn't be equal. Equality is a form of comparison

ZenoArrow|9 years ago

1 != sqrt(-1). That's an example of a comparison between a real number and an imaginary number.

hghdfgv|9 years ago

germanier|9 years ago

That's a rather narrow definition of comparability. If nothing else said, one would understand the term with regards to the relation of any partially ordered set – not only the one implicitly defined on that page.

mrob27|9 years ago

I define a non-word "uncomparable" to mean something specific and rather arbitrary, but I do not intend it to be the antonym of the real word "comparable". I'll try to clarify this on the webpage you linked to. - Robert Munafo

scarmig|9 years ago

Would a tl;dr here be:

Is BB(26) - BB(25) greater than or less than BB(25)?

wtbob|9 years ago

Technically all nouns are comparable under equality.