Mathematicians Discovered a Computer Problem that No One Can Ever Solve

livescience.com ^ | January 11, 2019 08:08am ET | By Rafi Letzter,

[BenLurkin]

[exinnj]

Words, words and more meaningless words.....

[TruthWillWin]

X2

[Meadow Muffin]

Whhhaaaaatt?

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

All right, who farted?

[Sirius Lee]

When math meets the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin.

[BenLurkin]

….and numbers.

[Texas Eagle]

The answers are in the back of the book.

[P.O.E.]

OTOH, there are infinity-deniers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finitism

[subterfuge]

Like where are Hilliary’s emails? Yes, unknowable.

[Tai_Chung]

Infinity and Beyond!

[Bitman]

It has been solved. The answer is of course, 42.

[Uncle Lonny]

I would solve the problem but I am kind of busy today.

[JohnG45]

They showed that in any mathematical system, there are certain questions that cannot be answered. They're not really difficult — they're unknowable.

And in February, 2002, at a Department of Defense briefing, Donald Rumsfeld agreed:

"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."

[Chengdu54]

I have a proof for this, but there’s insufficient space to show it here.

[Delta 21]

..and the last category is exponentially larger than all the others combined.

[Alas Babylon!]

OK, so let me get a question/comment in.

Infinite means — never-ending. Goes on forever. Never stops.

So, there are infinite integers and infinite real numbers, correct?

Then, since they never stop, the point is moot. There aren’t more real numbers, because of the state of infiniteness, that never ends.

I don’t see an issue. I simply accept infinite means what it means. You can’t count to infinite, either in integers or real numbers.

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

X2

Infinity + 1

[Sacajaweau]

Has always driven me nuts that pi is an approximation.