Re: Cantor Diagonal Proof

On Mon, 7 Apr 2025 18:24:36 -0400, Richard Damon wrote:

On 4/7/25 5:42 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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Somebody kept insisting that, even if my proposition is true for every
element in the list, it somehow goes false at the end. The end of an
infinite list! Yeah, right.

 
And that is because while every element on the list has an algorithm to
construct it, that list is infinite, so you can't just put them *ALL* in
to one finite algorithm to compute any one you need at the moment.

But that’s exactly how computable numbers work.