Tag: transcendental numbers
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A (final) speculation from “The Hidden Reality”
I have just finished Brian Greene’s The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos, so want to take this opportunity to once again endorse it and also to restate or reprise one of his speculations in the book: this time one grounded firmly in computing rather than string theory or conventional…
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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:…
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