Answer by Kyle Strand for What is meant by "finite algorithm" in Turing's...
I believe your confusion isn't actually about the definition of "finite" so much as it is about what we mean by "algorithm" and "enumerate." Also, note that we are applying "finite" to our description...
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In a comment thread on SlateStarCodex, I made a philosophical point the "realness" of the reals, in the process of which I attempted to summarize the definition of Turing-computable...
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