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- From: pat@frumious.uucp (Patrick Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.pascal,comp.lang.misc
- Subject: Re: Software design =/= Programming
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.005205.521@frumious.uucp>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 00:52:05 GMT
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- reindorf@us-es.sel.de (Charles Reindorf) writes:
- |OK, riddle me this. If I get you right, then if a statement A
- |is provably undecidable,
- |you assume that it is true.
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- No, you can only make this assumption for some statements.
- For example, if A is of the form
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- for all integers n, P(n) holds
-
- where n is a proposition whenever P(n) is false, you can actually
- prove that P(n) is false, then you can conclude that if A is
- undecidable it must be true. (Since if A were false, there would
- be a counterexample, but then you could prove that P(n) was false
- for that n, which proves ~A.)
-
- --
- Patrick Smith
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