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moron4hire
on Jan 23, 2023
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An intutive counterexample to the axiom of choice
But can't Chaitin's constant be described using a finite set of symbols, those symbols being in the set [achinost'] (at least, in English)?
tromp
on Jan 23, 2023
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Sure; a simple definition is at
https://tromp.github.io/cl/Binary_lambda_calculus.html#Halti...
hackandthink
on Jan 23, 2023
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OK, original poster doesn't speak about computable numbers: "consider the set of numbers that cannot be described using any finite collection of symbols"
But I have a hard time accepting numbers, which can only be described in natural language.
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