Re:The Chinese were solving 14th degree polynomials in 1303....
by Dylan16807 on Monday September 03, 2018 @01:24AM
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How many f_epsilon functions do you set up at compile time?
If it's countable, then your computer can now reflect the previously-computable numbers across these epsilons, and give you new numbers, but you're still only covering 0% of the reals.
If it's uncountable, covering a range, then you just moved the problem back a step. On top of that, such a computer doesn't even have to do real work. You can spend 20 seconds using grade school arithmetic to map the input range to the entire set of reals, 1:1. But mapping a range of reals into a bigger range of reals is a pretty lousy definition of "computable".
If it's countable, then your computer can now reflect the previously-computable numbers across these epsilons, and give you new numbers, but you're still only covering 0% of the reals.
If it's uncountable, covering a range, then you just moved the problem back a step. On top of that, such a computer doesn't even have to do real work. You can spend 20 seconds using grade school arithmetic to map the input range to the entire set of reals, 1:1. But mapping a range of reals into a bigger range of reals is a pretty lousy definition of "computable".