Re: Yet another Attempt at Disproving the Halting Problem

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Date: 08/02/04 

Date: 2 Aug 2004 08:18:11 -0500

 erayo@bilkent.edu.tr (Eray Ozkural exa) wrote:
>harrisq@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de (Mitch Harris) wrote in message news:<2n4u0hFt28phU1@uni-berlin.de>...
>> Peter Olcott <olcott@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>>>"Eray Ozkural exa" <erayo@bilkent.edu.tr> wrote in message
>>>>
>>>> What is the probability that all of the computer scientists who
>>>> responded to you have a poorer understanding of the problem than
>>>> yourself? (Hint: assume that there are 10 people who responded to you
>>>> independently)
>>>
>>>I will answer that question with another question.
>>>What is the probability that the ad verecundiam fallacy is not an
>>>error of reasoning?
>>>http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AdVerecundiam
>>
>> in mathematics, very high. So that would make the answer to Eray's
>> question...?
>
>I think I'll just make a calculation that is highly optimistic for
>Peter.
>
>If we assume that the probability one computer scientist has poorer
>understanding of the halting problem than Peter is 0.7, then for 10
>people, it becomes about 0.282, around 3%, for 10 independent
>responses. :) Not a very high probability, but I think in reality it
>is much less than that...

I noticed "independent." :-)

Larry

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