User blog comment:Edwin Shade/How do you evaluate extended Veblen notation ?/@comment-27516045-20171020195929/@comment-32876686-20171021040727

Yes, this makes sense, and in fact I know what fixed points are, because I tried to use them in this blog post to create an uncomputable function to produce large countable ordinals.

It didn't work out as smoothly as I had planned it to though, and looking back I can see that is because I did not fully understand the difference between limit ordinals and successor ordinals, and there were some ambiguity in the notation. I'm planning to revise it, but first I want to know everything there is to know about ordinals, so I can learn the current highest heirarchy for ordinals, and then find a way to surpass that.

Thank you for what you have told me so far, once I work this all out on paper I know I'll have it down.