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|    olcott to Richard Damon    |
|    Re: I spent 22 years on the notion of un    |
|    22 Dec 25 12:55:12    |
      XPost: comp.theory, sci.math, comp.theory       From: polcott333@gmail.com              On 12/22/2025 12:43 PM, Richard Damon wrote:       > On 12/22/25 1:40 PM, olcott wrote:       >       >> You are getting closer, good job !       >> Anything outside of what they CAN do       >> is outside the scope of computation.       >       > Nope.       >       > That just shows you don't understand the field.       >       > Since the problem is to determine what IS computable, limiting what you       > can ask to just computable things is nonsense.       >              Only those things that can be derived by applying       finite string transformations to inputs are computable.              --       Copyright 2025 Olcott |
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