Tyrrell_McAllister comments on But Somebody Would Have Noticed - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 05 May 2010 12:44:51AM 1 point [-]

Let's put it this way: Any computer program I have ever written to handle quantification would crash or loop forever if you tried to give it such a statement.

What encoding scheme would you use to encode arbitrary, possibly infinite, sets in a computer?

Comment author: PhilGoetz 08 May 2010 05:11:20AM 0 points [-]

I could, worst case, use the encoding scheme you use to write them down on paper when you prove things about them.