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[Crispy]

That depends. Done any university maths? (Or advanced high-school maths...)

[greebo]

As a matter of fact, yes, more than you want to know, believe me.

 

(Technical Physics is half mathematics)

[Schatten]

Is this a bizarre game? Can I play with you?

 

Anybody up for a game of Busy Beaver?

[Crispy]

Stop it Schatten, you're turning me on!

[Nyarlathotep]

Anybody up for a game of Busy Beaver?

Busy Beaver is for noobs! Let's plot the Ackermann function!

[Ishtvan]

I think it's time for a good game of pin the ground state eigenfunction on the potential!

[Crispy]

Busy Beaver is for noobs! Let's plot the Ackermann function!

Psh. Computable functions are so passé.

[Nyarlathotep]

But... I like recursion!

[Schatten]

Hey guys, we can compromise on Σ(A(m,n))

 

Maths - everyone gets pleased!™

[Crispy]

But surely that just simplifies to infinity (assuming that m, n can be any non-negative integers, since you didn't specify). Boring!

 

(If you restrict the domains of m and n so that the result is finite, then it of course is computable.)

[Schatten]

Huh, do I really have to explicitly rule out the trivial cases?

 

I thought I shared this forum with SPARTAAAA MEN.

 

Tsk!

[Nyarlathotep]

But surely that just simplifies to infinity (assuming that m, n can be any non-negative integers, since you didn't specify). Boring!

 

(If you restrict the domains of m and n so that the result is finite, then it of course is computable.)

That's too easy! Haven't you ever heard of divergent summation?

[Crispy]

Huh, do I really have to explicitly rule out the trivial cases?

Actually, yes.

 

Pure mathematics: Pedantry at its most refined.

 

That's too easy! Haven't you ever heard of divergent summation?

Not really, no... I guess they don't teach that here in first year.

 

I went and looked it up and I don't see the point of applying such methods to the Ackermann function, but I guess it doesn't need a point.

[Nyarlathotep]

Not really, no... I guess they don't teach that here in first year.

I haven't been taught it either, but as far as I can tell, divergent summation really only has applications in quantum physics (renormalization) and obscure mathematics.

 

I went and looked it up and I don't see the point of applying such methods to the Ackermann function, but I guess it doesn't need a point.

Since when did this thread have a point?

[Crispy]

Since when did this thread have a point?

Well, it did. Before it got horribly horribly derailed.