Le Jeudi 8 Juin 2006 02:56, Russell Standish a écrit :
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 03:56:32PM +0200, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
> > Hi Bruno,
> >
> > what I undestand about the UD is that it generates all programs, a
> > program being simply a number from the set N.(1)
>
> No - halting programs are a subset of N, but there are uncountably
> infinite non-halting ones.

Do you mean there exists programs which are not encodable in a finite string ? 
Is this really a "program" then ? And I see plenty of non-halting program 
which are perfectly writeable in a few instruction. 

> (Assuming we identify all programs without taking the non-read bits
> into account).

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