From: Thomas Buckner (tcbevolver@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Aug 18 2004 - 19:52:00 MDT
--- Marc Geddes <marc_geddes@yahoo.co.nz> wrote:
> I repeat: the terms 'undecidable' and
> 'uncomputable'
> have been totally misunderstood by
> mathematicians and
> lay-men.
>
> All of those so-called 'uncomputable' maths
> functions
> are in fact computable to any degree of
> accuracy less
> than 100% (so we can in fact compute the
> functions
> with 95%, 99%, 99.9% or any degree of accuracy
> we
> desire less than 100%)
>
> Similairly, all of those so-called
> 'undecidable'
> truths in maths are in fact decidable to any
> confidence level less than 100% (so we could in
> fact
> produce a non-axiomatic probabilistic argument
> to
> achieve 95%, 99%, 99.9% or any degree of
> confidence we
> desire less than 100%)
>
> Make sense?
>
Even as a layman this makes perfect sense to me.
Tom Buckner
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