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Mathematicians Discovered a Computer Problem that No One Can Ever Solve
livescience.com ^
| January 11, 2019 08:08am ET
| By Rafi Letzter,
Posted on 01/12/2019 5:15:03 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: P.O.E.
Are they all evangelical Christians?
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posted on
01/12/2019 6:13:07 AM PST
by
nwrep
To: Sacajaweau
Has always driven me nuts that pi is an approximation. That makes you a scientist. It allows you to pursue things that have never been understood before. That is good. I am an engineer, I am satisfied with an approximation if it can adequately be used to serve my purpose to make something useful. And make millions of them.
The various sizes of infinity is interesting but for me not very useful. Sort of looking at dazies growing on a hillside.
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posted on
01/12/2019 6:13:27 AM PST
by
super7man
(Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
To: BenLurkin
63
posted on
01/12/2019 6:13:29 AM PST
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
To: teeman8r
64
posted on
01/12/2019 6:15:29 AM PST
by
EEGator
To: BenLurkin
I need one of those to put on my office door for my typical day of dealing with the techno-challenged and intellectually lazy.
It’d be pegged on danger whenever a printer problem came up.
65
posted on
01/12/2019 6:15:47 AM PST
by
wally_bert
(We're low on dimes in fun city.)
To: HangnJudge
“That’s not without getting into Complex Numbers”
Even as a child, faced with the concept of infinity, I wondered how you could ever count to one.
66
posted on
01/12/2019 6:16:36 AM PST
by
bk1000
(I stand with Trump)
To: Sacajaweau
Pi is not an approximation.
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posted on
01/12/2019 6:17:41 AM PST
by
dinodino
To: BenLurkin
68
posted on
01/12/2019 6:18:52 AM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
To: teeman8r
69
posted on
01/12/2019 6:18:58 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both)
To: LukeL
But they cannot be counted, or should I say enumerated, because they’re infinite.
Infinite is a state that cannot be enumerated. Logic tells us that, too.
70
posted on
01/12/2019 6:19:36 AM PST
by
Alas Babylon!
(I can always count on some FReeper to paint a dark cloud above the silver lining. --Moonman62)
To: Bitman
We won’t know until we open the box. I was wondering when someone was going to drop a cat into this mess. Thread hijacker.
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posted on
01/12/2019 6:19:56 AM PST
by
super7man
(Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
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posted on
01/12/2019 6:20:11 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both)
To: Nuc 1.1
Apparently, some infinities are larger than others. Is there infinity envy? There are in fact infinitely many infinities. [No comment on which infinity is meant in that statement.]
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posted on
01/12/2019 6:20:28 AM PST
by
Pollster1
("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
To: BenLurkin
God
74
posted on
01/12/2019 6:20:29 AM PST
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Liberalism is like Nomad. Its Flawed Perfection.
75
posted on
01/12/2019 6:22:16 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: exinnj
Mental masturbation, IMHO...
76
posted on
01/12/2019 6:24:16 AM PST
by
jagusafr
To: Sacajaweau
Has always driven me nuts that pi is an approximation. Even worse is Euler's Identity
To: BenLurkin
Math may be used to approximate what we accept as scientific reality quite well...but it still is a creation of our minds and is subject to our own physical limitations..It is no surprise that there are unknowables...even in a sophisticated artificial created “world” of pure math..
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posted on
01/12/2019 6:27:03 AM PST
by
Getready
(Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
To: wally_bert
It’d be pegged on danger whenever a printer problem came up. The probability of a printer failure is proportional to the importance of the document you are printing. The printer has a sensor in it that makes this happen.
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posted on
01/12/2019 6:27:03 AM PST
by
super7man
(Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
To: JohnG45
Experienced continual observation and learning throughout life. I would contend that the older and wiser we get the more we realize that we dont know JACK.
Except for O’Crazy-O-Kotex. She knows everything.
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posted on
01/12/2019 6:27:19 AM PST
by
Delta 21
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