Re: How to do magic with infinity
From: Han de Bruijn (Han.deBruijn_at_DTO.TUDelft.NL)
Date: 10/29/04
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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:06:25 +0200
Frank Piron wrote:
> In fact you didn't show me the program because the library function
> "random" comes from outer space in your listing. For this function
> there are two origins possible
>
> 1)
> It is a pseudo random generator and thus an ordinary number
> function.
No doubt. It IS a pseudo random number generator.
> But what about numbers for which no generating programs can
> be written down?
> In what sense do they exist or not exist?
Good question! Can you come up with such a number?
Examples please.
Han de Bruijn
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