On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 7:10 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> They are non-computable by a Turing machine - which is already assumed to > have unlimited tape and time. It is likely that in the real world almost > all integers are not computable too. > Any integer can be calculated with a Turing machine that has unlimited tape and time, and even with a finite tape and finite time good approximations can be found for the rational numbers and some irrational numbers, even a few transcendental numbers, but for nearly all real numbers not even approximations can be calculated, not even with a infinite tape and infinite time. They're just not computable. And if a mechanical process like a Turing Machine can't produce them can the Real numbers have anything to do with physics? I don't claim to have a answer I'm just asking a question. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
