User blog comment:KthulhuHimself/Ordinal Arithmetic Notation (OAN)/@comment-35470197-20191112141154/@comment-27014275-20191117095240

Didn't I say that for 0, 1 and 2 we treat ordinal arithmetic as the regular definitions of addition, multiplication and exponentiation respectively? What do you mean by encoding it in arithmetic if not that? Or are you referring to the way finite numbers are derived from the ordinals?