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Re: The Distinguishability argument of the Reals.
Posted:
Jan 3, 2013 11:30 AM
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On Jan 3, 4:52 pm, gus gassmann <g...@nospam.com> wrote:
> On 03/01/2013 8:58 AM, Zuhair wrote:
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> > On Jan 3, 3:23 pm, gus gassmann <g...@nospam.com> wrote:
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> >>> Call it what may you, what is there is:
> >>> (1) ALL reals are distinguishable on finite basis
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> >> > (2) Distinguishability on finite basis is COUNTABLE.
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> >> What does this mean? If you have two _different_ reals r1 and r2, then
> >> you can establish this fact in finite time. The set of reals that are
> >> describable by finite strings over a finite character set is countable.
> >> However, not all reals have that property.
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> > I already have written the definition of that in another post, and
> > this post comes in continuation to that post, to reiterate:
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> > r1 is distinguished from r2 on finite basis <->
> > Exist n. n is a natural number & Exist d_n, k_n: d_n is the n_th
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> > of r1 & k_n is the n_th digit of r2 & d_n =/= k_n)
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> Exactly. This is precisely what I wrote. IF you have TWO *DIFFERENT*
> reals r1 and r2, then you can establish this fact in finite time.
> However, if you are given two different descriptions of the *SAME* real,
> you will have problems. How do you find out that NOT exist n... in
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That is irrelevant (or at least that's how it appears to me) ANY two
distinct (i.e. different) reals can be distinguished in finite time
and any two reals that are distinguished in finite time are distinct.
That's all what we need. The question of revealing the identity of
some real in finite time is another matter, and my argument do not
involve it at all, so it is irrelevant.
> Moreover, being able to distinguish two reals at a time has nothing at
> all to do with the question of how many there are, or how to distinguish
> more than two. Your (2) uses a _different_ concept of distinguishability.
(2) simple refers to how many finite initial segments of reals can be
distinguishable? i.e. what is the total number of such segments.
Clearly we have COUNTABLY many finite initial segments of reals. In
other words we cannot distinguish more than COUNTABLY many finite
initial segments of reals. Of course all of those are distinguished in
finite time no doubt.
I think that distinguishability in (2) is the same distinguishability
in (1) it has exactly the same definition.
We have only COUNTABLY many finite initial segments of reals that we
can distinguish of course on finite basis, that's what is available,
we don't have more.
Now every Two distinct reals are distinguishable on FINITE basis. But
we have only Countably many finite initial segments of reals available
for us to distinguish reals by, so how come we've ended up with
UNCOUNTABLY many reals, what is the source of the excess in the number
of reals, how can we distinguish more than what is available for us to
distinguish. This is like saying that we have Three SEEDS, and Each
Two distinct TREES grown from planting the three seeds must have Two
distinct seeds where each Tree have grown from one seed, and then one
comes and say that planting the three seeds had resulted in FOUR
Trees? This is an example of a product outnumbering the potential of
production?
By the way I might be wrong of course, I'll be glad to have anyone
spot my error, my analogies might simply be misleading.
Zuhair
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