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Comment by supercasio

> The fact that you might object to considering such procedures algorithms rests on the fact that the "thesis" is providing a definition.

Unfortunately, many people don't seem to understand this.

An interesting paper related to this issue is The Myth of Hypercomputation [1]

Basically it is easy compute something that is uncomputable by using uncomputable inputs.

[1] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-05642-4_...

parent supercasio 6 years ago

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