Mathematicians Discovered a Computer Problem that No One Can Ever Solve

livescience.com ^ | January 11, 2019 08:08am ET | By Rafi Letzter,

[Pollster1]

I would solve the problem but I am kind of busy today.

Cuius rei demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet. [I have discovered a truly remarkable proof of this theorem which this margin is too small to contain.]

[Vinnie]

Now you’ve done it. I’ m gonna be up all night pondering this. :-)

[ptsal]

Thanks for the thought-provoking article.

[Lazamataz]

Loki: “We have a Hulk.”

[Louis Foxwell]

Yeah. Me too.

[HangnJudge]

There are an infinite # of Integers
There are an infinite # of real numbers
Between each Integer there are an infinite number of real numbers.
The # of Real Numbers is therefore Infinity * Infinity

Whats between Infinity and Infinity squared?

That's not without getting into Complex Numbers

Back to drinking my coffee

[Radix]

That was great. It was just like watching it the first time.

[dsrtsage]

Numbers make me angry
There is like too many and stuff

[Nuc 1.1]

The cat is alive! ;D

[wally_bert]

The General didn’t too well with ultimate questions either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljGH07Unfe8

[Nuc 1.1]

Chuckles. Just watched that. Apparently we lost completely.

[P.O.E.]

My favorite TV series ever!

[goldstategop]

Nomad’s programming got damaged. It didn’t discover it and it committed more errors.

Its quest for ultimate perfection resulted in its own destruction.

A perfect probe condemned by the unknowables of its own programming.

Logic itself can be undermined by the existence of paradox.

[Ciaphas Cain]

Beat me to it!

[poinq]

Our base 10 number system is a flawed model. It has gaps everywhere that we need to just think around. Like the square root of negative one. It can’t represent PI or even 2/3. So we have invented a few patches. Some of the patches drive computers nuts, like 5/0. Computers always check to make sure that they do not divide by zero. But division is something that is unnatural to computers. They can do it, but very awkwardly. Of course multiplication or adding is very simple and fast. One day someone will come up with a better system. It may require more, or different digits. It will certainly not be based ten.

But our math does pretty good for the physical world we live.

[wally_bert]

One of the best ever made.

[unread]

"I simply accept infinite means what it means."

Yeah but, maybe infinite doesn't mean what it means... Like, maybe this isn't Saturday... Maybe it's really Tuesday... Maybe up isn't really that, but in fact, it's down...hmmmm

[BenLurkin]

Loved this dial

Gotta get one for my computer

[null and void]

When engineering meets the number of transistors that can fit on a chip...

[Dubh_Ghlase]

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