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|    Mikko to olcott    |
|    Re: on mathematical ghosts (3/3)    |
|    15 Dec 25 11:48:16    |
      [continued from previous message]              >> u can argue about what computing machines actually exist all u want,       >> and whether anything actually computes the halting *function*, i'm not       >> going to argue over what the halting *function* itself is       >>       >       > Then you get the wrong answer.       >       > In computability theory and computational complexity       > theory, a decision problem is a computational problem       > that can be posed as a yes–no question on a set of       > input values. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_problem       >       > Most people have no idea that there is such a thing       > as an incorrect question. Because of this they misclassify       > incorrect yes/no questions as undecidable decision problem       > instances.              Most people understand that a question is incorrect if it does not ask.       They also understand that a question can be correct ever when you don't       know the answer.              --       Mikko              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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