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Programmer and mathematician talking with each other

1 pointsby giziabout 9 years ago
<i></i>Programmer:<i></i> Your mathematical verbiage in that shitty Russell-Whitehead notation is ambiguous. It cannot be verified by a machine. How do we know that it is not just a pile of bullshit?<p><i></i>Mathematician:<i></i> That will be confirmed by another mathematician.<p><i></i>Programmer:<i></i> How do we know that this other mathematician is not lying?<p><i></i>Mathematician:<i></i> That will be ascertained by yet another mathematician.<p><i></i>Programmer:<i></i> Theory of deception says that your Russell-Whitehead notation is gradually but surely turning you into a colluding gang of liars and impostors. In other words, none of you cannot be trusted. May I ask you: You do not really desire to solve the problem, do you?<p><i></i>Mathematician:<i></i> True. We like things to be this way. There is simply no problem, and that is why all of us strive to find a job at the NSA. As I told you already, the problem that you are talking about, is just an illusion.

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ahazred8taabout 9 years ago
a brief overview of the notation:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Glossary_of_Principia_Mathematica#Symbols_introduced_in_Principia_Mathematica_volume_I" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Glossary_of_Principia_Mathemat...</a>