*** The string is on_the_list TO_INFINITE_DIGITS is NOT incomprehensible ***

From: |-|erc (h_at_r.c)
Date: 01/18/05

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    Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:32:18 +1000

    > "a random real number can be on it to an infinite number of digits"
    > wide crosspost merely to highlight the moment.

    The emphasis was meant to be on the proposition, not a mass personal attack
    on me to cover the fact you all swore blue this was incomprehensible and false
    to me, 20 or 30 of you all swore to my face this was false for months, talk about that!

    Why do you think I've been posting TO HOW MANY DIGITS?
    in 20 different formats for the last 10 days?

    Herc

    "John Savard" <jsavard@excxn.aNOSPAMb.cdn.invalid> wrote in
    > On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:51:55 +1000, "|-|erc" <h@r.c> wrote, in part:
    >
    > >But have you shown there is no contradiction "for real Random and list Computables"?
    >
    > By showing that there is no contradiction between 1/3 and SimpleCount,
    > as I put it, I do show that, for the same reason, if you have the list
    > of computables, a random real number can be on it to an infinite number
    > of digits, and yet not be on the list. Because showing there is no
    > contradiction in the case that is easier to understand means that the
    > general principle used to _claim_ a contradiction exists is false.
    >
    > In other words, I've shown you haven't shown there is a contradiction
    > "for real Random and list Computables".
    >
    > John Savard
    > http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html 

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