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The infinte set

Name: Anonymous 2011-11-09 13:20

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/11/skyrim-infinite-quests/
Seems like the talented (especially when it comes to programming) folks at Bethesda have finally proved infinity exists. And it's in their video game. Now perhaps the ``in Lisp'' guy will study some math.

Name: Anonymous 2011-11-09 19:49

>>24
It could be seeded/resetted multiple times during the play and maybe various things the player does could also cause that. Whatever quantum randomness in the player's environment could end up causing various macroscopic effects and changing the player's behavior. Not that this matters, the number of possibilities are still likely finite, as long as ... or maybe not, if we assume the player has no lifespan limit, the actual output may very well be unique as long as the game itself never halts. Even a program that outputs pi's digits without halting would have an infinite trace. Not that I think our local resident ultrafinitist believes in the variety of multiverses which would allow such potentially infinite traces of a program, so this is all irrelevant trolling.

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