> On 9 Aug 2018, at 02:03, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 11:07:16AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote:
>> 
>>> On 8 Aug 2018, at 02:20, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> needs to be abandoned, though. The only additional feature of the 
>>> phenomenal physics is the existence of random oracles, which does not 
>>> enlarge the class of computable functions, as an old paper by Shannon 
>>> showed.
>> 
>> Are you sure Shannon did this? Have you a reference?
>> 
> 
> @InCollection{Leeuw-etal56,
>  author =      {Karel de Leeuw and Edward F. Moore and Claude E. Shannon and 
> N. Shapiro},
>  title =       {Computation by Probabilistic Machines},
>  booktitle =   {Automata Studies},
>  pages =       {183--212},
>  publisher =   {Princeton UP},
>  year =        1956,
>  editor =      {Shannon and McCarthy},
>  address =     {Princeton}
> }
> 
> Well OK - not just Shannon :).

Thank you Russell. I was not aware of that paper. With de Leeuw, Moore and 
Shapiro, that might be related to computability and (Turing) Oracle indeed.

Bruno




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