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). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---