Re: Computability

On Jan 14, 8:39 pm, quasi <qu...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:42:38 -0800 (PST), The Dougster 22044
<DGo...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 14, 4:46 am, quasi <qu...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:14:39 -0500, quasi <qu...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:02:36 -0800 (PST), The Dougster 22044
<DGo...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well, it appears that your conjecture fails.

Here's a counterexample:

    (x,y,z) = (43, 638, 659)

with p = 7.

Well, I wrote a check(x,y,z) function just for this counterexample,
and no, it doesn't check out. I am flagging five conditions:

PASS: x < y < z < x+y
PASS: (x,y) = (y,z) = (z,x) = 1
PASS: ( o(x/y,z), o(z/x,y), o(z/y,x)) = (2p, p, p)
PASS: (x/y)^p mod z == -1
FAIL: x + y - z = 0 (because x == y == z mod p here)

Well that's the _new_ condition.

That condition was added after I posted the counterexample.

Hey, I am sorry if my difficulties with exposition led you to believe
I was jerking you around by either inventing or adding to this thread
conditions I have known for some time. I never intended to do that;
what I was trying to do, and what we have done, is to _gradually_
introduced everything relevant to the problem that I know, find more
of relevance, and stimulate interest.

So we can certainly drop this if you feel that way, and try again some
day with us, with Chip, and with anyone else interested. I want you to
know that I really appreciate the help you have given freely to me in
exposition, quasi, and that I feel like I made more progress in this
thread than any other.

I think the Bayesian approach I discuss in the new thread will help
sort the conditions we have here and any new conditions into order of
probability and that that order will be the order of exposition next
time around. I am even working on a proposal for the workgroup I
volunteer with to fund a Bayesian Therapy experiment using assistive
technology with adults living with and recovering from a mental
illness, who have symptoms like disorganized thinking and living
situations, problems remembering to take their medications, and are at
a power disadvantage in today's society without at least a PDA/phone
and a support hotline and a few accounts for various things like email
and faxing. The PDAs would share survey software that would link
client cognitions in a pattern of correalations like "when client
rides the bus, client's mood drops by one rating point; when client
spends time with family client's hallucinations abate from 5 to 2 per
hour...." stuff like that. It's phase space, I think.

So thanks for the participation, all.

Doug
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