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[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (12 children)

Turing Incompleteness is a pathway to many powers the Computer Scientists would consider incalculable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

In fact, there's infinite problems that cannot be solved by Turing machnes!

(There are countably many Turing-computable problems and uncountably many non-Turing-computable problems)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Infinite seems like it's low-balling it, then. 0% of problems can be solved by Turing machines (same way 0% of real numbers are integers)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The subset of integers in the set of reals is non-zero. Sure, I guess you could represent it as arbitrarily small small as a ratio, but it has zero as an asymptote, not as an equivalent value.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

The cardinality is obviously non-zero but it has measure zero. Probability is about measures.

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