Re: Cantorian pseudomathematics

Jesse F. Hughes wrote:

Han.deBruijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: 

Jesse F. Hughes wrote:

But in any case, I haven't seen the code that you use to teach your
keen artificially intelligent computer what N is.


program Infinity;
{
 Potential Infinity
}

[ ... snip ... ]

That's a joke, right? 

Not really. It defines exactly what (you & ) I mean by a finite interval
of naturals (mysteriously) growing to infinity.

No, but I'm sure that code you just gave me allows your computer to
"understand" your version of the naturals.


Up to a certain limit where it breaks down. Then order a larger computer
or invoke a P2T (Pascal to Turing) compiler and run the code on a Turing
machine with an infinite tape, where it will never break down, and never
end ...

Han de Bruijn

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