James Rogers wrote:
> Obviously this is something of an oversimplification; I think I see your
> point.  There is still a halting problem, just not a practical halting
> problem for most intents and purposes.  Or at least it has been 
> pushed to a
> level of abstraction where we don't really worry about it too much.

OK, I'm happier with that formulation.  thanks ;-)

> 
> No practical result will emerge from infinite computation, and 
> our machinery
> doesn't like to do infinite computation anyway (but will happily make
> approximations).  

Yep, gotcha.

ben

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