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To: LibWhacker

What does this mean in english?


2 posted on 08/14/2010 8:02:51 PM PDT by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: Mmogamer

In plain english, it means there are weird but smart people who worry about things so I don’t have to...


3 posted on 08/14/2010 8:04:43 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (When the ass brays, don't reply...)
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To: Mmogamer

P is not equal to not-P


4 posted on 08/14/2010 8:05:38 PM PDT by patton (Obama has replaced "Res Publica" with "Quod licet Jovi non licet bovi.")
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To: Mmogamer
Wikipedia has a pretty interesting article about it. I have no special knowledge about the subject. Never understood it. Never studied it.
6 posted on 08/14/2010 8:10:52 PM PDT by LibWhacker (America awake!)
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To: Mmogamer

This mean theoretical mathematicians have nothing better to do. There is no practical application for any of this, except to build into other proofs that may have some theoretical application. Its the same as the Busy Beaver and Ackerman sequences - sort of. I’m not an egg head, but know some of this stuff. Just pretend you never heard of this story, and the world will continue to move as it always has.


7 posted on 08/14/2010 8:11:52 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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I’ve been snooping around looking for applications. It’s considered very important for AI, quantum computing, cryptography, airline scheduling, etc. So it’s way up there in importance and not just some abstract intellectual exercise for pure mathematicians.


19 posted on 08/14/2010 9:03:01 PM PDT by LibWhacker (America awake!)
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To: Mmogamer

Next weeks lotto number will be....


42 posted on 08/15/2010 6:11:14 AM PDT by Vaduz
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