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- From: pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt)
- Subject: Re: help with recursive functions
- Message-ID: <1992Oct8.052110.23092@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 05:21:10 GMT
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- In article <1b074cINN4fu@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cxm7@po.CWRU.Edu (Colin Mclarty) writes:
- >
- > I'd like some help with partial recursive functions which
- >do not extend to (total) recursive ones. I can prove there is no
- >effective routine for extending all partials to total recursive
- >functions, but I do not see how to prove there are particular
- >partial recursive functions that do not extend to recursive. Are
- >there typical methods from proving this in particular cases?
- >
- >Colin McLarty
-
-
- Rogers, Chapter 2, Theorem II: There exists p.r. \psi with no recursive
- extension.
-
- Proof. Take \psi(x) = \phi_x(x)+1, and let \phi_y be any recursive
- extension of \psi. Since \phi_y is recursive, \psi(y) halts, whence
- \phi_y(y) = \phi_y(y)+1.
-
- --
- =================================================== In short, I am floundering
- Vaughan Pratt pratt@cs.Stanford.EDU 415-494-2545 around and don't take what
- =================================================== I say seriously.
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