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To: AmishDude
That's pretty good. Suffice it to say, no, computers do not write proofs.

That hasn't been true for at least 30 years. Do you claim the current proof of the 4 color theorem was, in substantial part, not written by a computer?

349 posted on 11/26/2005 6:51:25 PM PST by donh
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To: donh

Nothing of substance is "proven" by a computer. There are things that can be verified by exhaustive computer search. The proof part of the A&H theorem was the reduction to the cases that were then "verified" by computer. It was still viewed with suspicion.


352 posted on 11/26/2005 6:54:36 PM PST by AmishDude (Your corporate slogan could be here! FReepmail me for my confiscatory rates.)
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