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- From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
- Subject: Re: What more do you want?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.213501.18144@fid.morgan.com>
- Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co., New York, NY
- References: <1992Jul21.190243.16846@galois.mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 21:35:01 GMT
- Lines: 19
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- In article <1992Jul21.190243.16846@galois.mit.edu>
- tycchow@riesz.mit.edu (Timothy Y. Chow) writes:
- >For a change of pace, here's a dramatization of the frustration that
- >existence proofs can sometimes cause.
- :
- ;
- > but I don't have any idea how
- > big C is. On the other hand, that's not a big problem, because
- > C is computable.
- >B: You mean there's an algorithm that will give you the value of C
- > explicitly?
- >A: Exactly.
-
- All integers are computable.
-
- Nice post, though. It does illustrate some concepts that some people
- have trouble with.
-
- Seth sethb@fid.morgan.com
-