On Thursday 07 June 2007 08:37:51 pm Matt Mahoney wrote: > The enumeration of Turing machines mentioned earlier would not be a general > solution because you don't know which ones will halt.
You may not know, but I have an old mimeographed preprint of a paper "On Random and Hard-to-Describe Numbers" by Charles Bennett (dated 23 may 1979) that ends with the following paragraph: "The author has received reliable information, from a Source who wishes to remain anonymous, that the decimal expansion of Omega begins Omega = 0.9999998020554253273471801908..." Josh ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=e9e40a7e
