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- From: sam4628@zeus.tamu.edu
- Subject: Re: Godel's Proof (was Re: Software design =/= Programming)
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- References: <josef.720690811@uranium> <LOEGEL.92Nov9134531@fegatello.ssc.gov>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:25:00 GMT
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- In article <LOEGEL.92Nov9134531@fegatello.ssc.gov>, loegel@sscvx1.ssc.gov writes...
- >From the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Science and Technology:
- >Godel's Proof: Any formal arithmetical system is incomplete in the
- >sense that, given any consistent set of arithmetical axioms, there are
- >true statements in the resulting arithmetical system that cannot be
- >derived from these axioms.
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- OH MY GOODNESS - somebody let mathematicians on the net!!!!!
- AAARRRRGGGGHHHH!
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- (_Lots_ of :-)'s BTW, who decided that 'argh' is spelled 'argh'?)
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