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Empty Set
Patrick Stevens9y*20

Ilia Zaichuk Thanks for the edit! I made a couple of linguistic changes, and made the "uniqueness of ∅" a bit less compact.

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Set
Patrick Stevens9y*10

Ilia Zaichuk: I've made the appropriate changes to the markup to make text display in MathJax (which is the LaTeX-syntax markup language used for maths on this site and on Stack Exchange). However, I think it's a bug in Arbital (which I've just pointed out to the developers) that it's not rendering correctly. (EDIT: I've altered the markup into a form that works around the bug. It just makes the markup look a bit less nice.)

In general, you can use \text{text here}; if you want to put maths inline with the text here, you can use dollar signs:

 \text{Heinz $57$ Varieties}

Additionally, if you have a mathematical string you want to typeset, like "sin", you can use \mathrm{sin} which shows up as sin. (It so happens that there is already a built-in symbol that does that for sin: \sin.)

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Rices Theorem
Patrick Stevens9y*10

This is not universally agreed-upon, but I use "A decides whether or not B holds" to mean "A outputs 1 if B holds, and outputs 0 otherwise".

If I said "A decides if B holds", I would consider that ambiguous: it might mean "A outputs 1 if B holds" without the requirement on A's behaviour if B doesn't hold.

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Project Proposal Intro To The Universal Property
Patrick Stevens9y*20

Looks good to me!

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Project Proposal Intro To Numbers
Patrick Stevens9y*20

The non-existence of a total order on C is fun and interesting, I think, and also not very difficult. An excellent exercise in proof by contradiction.

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Rices Theorem
Patrick Stevens9y*10

I think the answer is no. Indeed, there are uncountably many S, but only countably many machines which can access oracles.

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Rices Theorem
Patrick Stevens9y*10

Surely they are equivalent. Given a Rice-deciding oracle, we can ask the oracle, "Does the partial function defined by machine [n] specify where input k should go?"; that determines whether [n] halts on input k or not.

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Rices Theorem
Patrick Stevens9y*30

I think the halting problem probably should have its own page, rather than being linked to the umbrella uncomputability page.

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Euclids Lemma On Prime Numbers
Patrick Stevens9y*30

Simply that I didn't know the name :) I'll edit it in.

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Free Group
Patrick Stevens9y*10

Thanks: quite correct.

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