On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 7:10 PM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:
> They are non-computable by a Turing machine - which is already assumed to > have unlimited tape and time. It is likely that in the real world almost > all integers are not computable too. > Any integer can be calculated with a Turing machine that has unlimited tape and time, and even with a finite tape and finite time good approximations can be found for the rational numbers and some irrational numbers, even a few transcendental numbers, but for nearly all real numbers not even approximations can be calculated, not even with a infinite tape and infinite time. They're just not computable. And if a mechanical process like a Turing Machine can't produce them can the Real numbers have anything to do with physics? I don't claim to have a answer I'm just asking a question. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
