Tag: Lance Fortnow
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“Basically, you would be able to compute anything you wanted”
The quote that forms the title here comes from Lance Fortnow, a computer scientist at Northwestern University, in an article (here – subscription required) in the current edition of the New Scientist on the question. It’s an odd statement for a computer scientist to make – most numbers are transcendental numbers and so are fundamentally incomputable:…
cartesian product ... stuff about computing mostly 