Re: *THE* PUZZLE (was: ascension, Smullyan, ...)

From: Russell Standish <r.standish.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 10:56:36 +1000

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 03:56:32PM +0200, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
>
> Hi Bruno,
>
> what I undestand about the UD is that it generates all programs, a program
> being simply a number from the set N.(1)

No - halting programs are a subset of N, but there are uncountably
infinite non-halting ones.

(Assuming we identify all programs without taking the non-read bits
into account).

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Received on Wed Jun 07 2006 - 20:57:48 PDT