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Re: On Strachey

From Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com>
Newsgroups comp.theory
Subject Re: On Strachey
Date 2022-05-05 23:01 -0600
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <t52a3e$joq$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References (4 earlier) <20220505225335.00007d75@reddwarf.jmc> <t51ig5$t3s$4@dont-email.me> <87czgrmok4.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <20220506025943.00006c94@reddwarf.jmc> <87y1zf9xx5.fsf@bsb.me.uk>

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On 5/5/2022 8:50 PM, Ben wrote:
> Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> writes:
> 
>> On Fri, 06 May 2022 02:34:35 +0100
>> Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote:
>>   
>>> Two people who have not read the paper have persuaded themselves that
>>> someone who has must be wrong about it.  Is there any need for facts?
>>>
>>> Turing's 1936 paper is not about halting.
>>
>> [Wikipedia, 2022] disagrees with you:
>>
>> "Alan Turing proved in 1936 that a general algorithm to solve the
>> halting problem for all possible program-input pairs cannot exist."
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
> 
> And?  People like you write wikipedia articles.
> 
> This seems like a very odd debate since you could simply see for your
> self.  Academics (like Turing) publish papers so we can all see what
> they are saying.

I pulled Davis /The undecidable/ off the shelf recently - it includes 
The Turing paper. I think that you have been referring to Chapter or 
Section 8 and that is as close to mucking about with halting as he got. 
Your reading is, of course, correct. The fact that the idiot and his 
sock puppet were the other side of the dialogue, kept me from butting in 
for a few reasons: 1) the term "cycle-free" being used as you noted 
above and 2) the use of a "diagonal argument" for what he did prove. 
Both terms, I thought, would drive the two/one to utter madness and 
confusion since we've seen that diagonal arguments are beyond their 
comprehension and cycle-free would conjure visions of infinite recursion 
and the "Demons of the Christmas story about Scrooge". When ignorant of 
or confronted with words not understood they go into a most interesting 
tail (or is that tale) spin. So I passed. Since you broached the topic, 
I thought what the hell .....
-- 
Jeff Barnett

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On Strachey Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> - 2022-05-05 20:45 +0100
  Re: On Strachey olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> - 2022-05-05 16:30 -0500
    Re: On Strachey Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> - 2022-05-05 22:39 +0100
      Re: On Strachey olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> - 2022-05-05 16:48 -0500
        Re: On Strachey Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> - 2022-05-05 22:53 +0100
          Re: On Strachey olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> - 2022-05-05 17:18 -0500
            Re: On Strachey Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-05-06 02:34 +0100
              Re: On Strachey olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> - 2022-05-05 20:40 -0500
                Re: On Strachey Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-05-06 03:53 +0100
              Re: On Strachey Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> - 2022-05-06 02:59 +0100
                Re: On Strachey Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-05-06 03:50 +0100
                Re: On Strachey Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com> - 2022-05-05 23:01 -0600
                Re: On Strachey Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> - 2022-05-06 15:42 +0100
                Re: On Strachey Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> - 2022-05-06 14:56 +0100
                Re: On Strachey olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> - 2022-05-06 11:58 -0500
                Re: On Strachey Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-05-07 01:11 +0100
                Re: On Strachey olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> - 2022-05-06 19:31 -0500
                Re: On Strachey Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-05-07 02:07 +0100
                Re: On Strachey olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> - 2022-05-06 20:34 -0500
                Re: On Strachey Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-05-06 23:08 -0400
                Re: On Strachey Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-05-07 23:47 +0100
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2022-05-07 18:14 -0500
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] Dennis Bush <dbush.mobile@gmail.com> - 2022-05-07 16:35 -0700
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2022-05-07 19:19 -0500
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] Dennis Bush <dbush.mobile@gmail.com> - 2022-05-07 17:48 -0700
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2022-05-07 20:08 -0500
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] Dennis Bush <dbush.mobile@gmail.com> - 2022-05-07 18:26 -0700
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2022-05-07 21:20 -0500
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] Dennis Bush <dbush.mobile@gmail.com> - 2022-05-07 19:36 -0700
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2022-05-09 10:31 -0500
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] Dennis Bush <dbush.mobile@gmail.com> - 2022-05-09 09:02 -0700
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2022-05-09 11:05 -0500
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] Dennis Bush <dbush.mobile@gmail.com> - 2022-05-09 09:30 -0700
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2022-05-09 11:39 -0500
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] Dennis Bush <dbush.mobile@gmail.com> - 2022-05-09 09:52 -0700
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2022-05-09 12:18 -0500
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] Dennis Bush <dbush.mobile@gmail.com> - 2022-05-09 10:26 -0700
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2022-05-09 15:17 -0500
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] Dennis Bush <dbush.mobile@gmail.com> - 2022-05-09 13:27 -0700
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2022-05-09 15:51 -0500
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] Dennis Bush <dbush.mobile@gmail.com> - 2022-05-09 13:59 -0700
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2022-05-09 16:19 -0500
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] Dennis Bush <dbush.mobile@gmail.com> - 2022-05-09 14:30 -0700
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2022-05-09 17:24 -0500
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] Dennis Bush <dbush.mobile@gmail.com> - 2022-05-09 15:56 -0700
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2022-05-09 18:13 -0500
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] Dennis Bush <dbush.mobile@gmail.com> - 2022-05-09 16:44 -0700
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-05-09 19:52 -0400
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-05-09 19:50 -0400
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] wij <wyniijj2@gmail.com> - 2022-05-09 14:51 -0700
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] wij <wyniijj2@gmail.com> - 2022-05-09 14:53 -0700
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2022-05-09 17:18 -0500
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] wij <wyniijj2@gmail.com> - 2022-05-09 15:34 -0700
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2022-05-09 17:44 -0500
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] wij <wyniijj2@gmail.com> - 2022-05-09 15:53 -0700
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2022-05-09 18:03 -0500
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] wij <wyniijj2@gmail.com> - 2022-05-09 16:11 -0700
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2022-05-09 18:19 -0500
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] wij <wyniijj2@gmail.com> - 2022-05-09 16:23 -0700
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2022-05-09 18:30 -0500
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] wij <wyniijj2@gmail.com> - 2022-05-09 16:42 -0700
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ][ proof that I am correct ] olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2022-05-10 07:16 -0500
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ][ proof that I am correct ] Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-05-10 19:23 -0400
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-05-09 20:02 -0400
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com> - 2022-05-09 16:12 -0600
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2022-05-09 17:36 -0500
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com> - 2022-05-09 20:13 -0600
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-05-09 23:39 -0400
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2022-05-09 22:22 -0500
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] Dennis Bush <dbush.mobile@gmail.com> - 2022-05-09 20:48 -0700
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-05-09 19:43 -0400
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-05-09 19:40 -0400
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-05-09 19:39 -0400
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-05-09 19:37 -0400
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-05-07 21:09 -0400
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-05-07 21:22 -0400
                Re: On Strachey [ How nuts is that? ] Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-05-08 00:46 +0100
                Re: On Strachey Ben <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2022-05-07 00:58 +0100
  Re: On Strachey Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2022-05-06 16:09 +0300
    Re: On Strachey Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc> - 2022-05-06 14:59 +0100
      Re: On Strachey Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2022-05-06 19:16 +0300
        Re: On Strachey olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> - 2022-05-06 11:49 -0500
      Re: On Strachey olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> - 2022-05-06 12:10 -0500
    Re: On Strachey olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> - 2022-05-06 12:34 -0500

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