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1# Overview #
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3Program to breed N generations of surreal numbers and arrange them in order.
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6# Status #
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8Fully functional and tested on Debian 10.9 with Go 1.16.3.
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13Sample output is shown below for four generations. The vertical axis plots the
14numberline from smallest to largest and the horizontal axis plots generation.
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16 % ./ch1-breeding-numbers -generations 4
17 . . . aas = <---|aag>
18 . . aag = <---|aac>
19 . . . aal = <aag|aac>
20 . aac = <---|aaa>
21 . . . aam = <aac|aad>
22 . . aad = <aac|aaa>
23 . . . aan = <aad|aaa>
24 aaa = <---|--->
25 . . . aao = <aaa|aae>
26 . . aae = <aaa|aab>
27 . . . aap = <aae|aab>
28 . aab = <aaa|--->
29 . . . aaq = <aab|aaj>
30 . . aaj = <aab|--->
31 . . . abd = <aaj|--->
32 After 4 generations, the universe contains 15 numbers.
33 If output looks poor, ensure tabstop is eight spaces and that output doesn't wrap.
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