On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 06:48:19PM -0500, John Clark wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 6:25 PM Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote: > > > > OK, so what about the program "print X+1", where X is the expansion of > the number BB(8000)-1? > > > Well what about it? If you don't know what BB(8000) is, and you don't and > neither does God, then neither of you will ever know what BB(8000)-1 is. > > John K Clark
That is why I said the number is unknowable, rather than uncomputable. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow hpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
