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That's reasonable. Frankly, I was trying to avoid getting too much into ordinal arithmetic, because I primarily want my site to be about large finite numbers, not infinite numbers, and not set theory. However at least a cursory understanding of these things seems to be needed to really understand googology. I was basically trying to give the "rules lite" version of FGH, that wouldn't concern itself too much about what these "ordinals" actually represent.

However I think your suggestion is probably a good one. I can probably make the distinction without having to derail the conservation into just being about ordinals, which is what I don't really want. Ordinals are cool, don't get me wrong, but there is this danger of them becoming too much of a focus, when there is an entire universe of finite numbers to be explored.