Re: Cantor For Dummies ...

On Mar 29, 9:55 am, riderofgiraffes <mathforum.org...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I never said that the list being fed in was
the output list. Never once did I say that
an output list was being used as input. I'd
be interested to see where you claim I said
that an output list was being used as input.
You said that your algorithm can use ANY input.

Yes. I said that if you provide a list of
committees, then my algorithm can and will
produce a committee that's not on your list.

No it can't. It can't use a list that
contains your algorithm's output.

Why not?

If you start with a list L1 of committees and
then apply my algorithm to that, we get a new
committee C1 that wasn't on the original list.

Now create a list L2 which is C1 prepended to L1.

Tell me why we can't now apply my algorithm
to L2.

Why would that change the fact that each Ln is the
output of an algorithm? Running some algorithm in
a loop n times is still an algorithm and therefore
is contained in the collection of all algorithms
that output a committee.

.

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