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arXiv:chao-dyn/9406002nlin.CD

The Berry Paradox

G. J. Chaitin

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Abstract

Lecture given Wednesday 27 October 1993 at a Physics -- Computer Science Colloquium at the University of New Mexico. The lecture was videotaped; this is an edited transcript. It also incorporates remarks made at the Limits to Scientific Knowledge meeting held at the Santa Fe Institute 24--26 May 1994.

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13 pages, LaTeX
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DOI
doi:10.1007/BFb0103569
Subjects
nlin.CDChaotic Dynamics

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  1. What Made Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem Hard to Prove 1 comment

    • While the Berry paradox isn't strictly speaking mathematically sensible, there are similar ideas that lead to new and less well-known impossibility results. https://arxiv.org/pdf/chao-dyn/9406002.pdf has a transcript of an overview of the idea and main results by the researcher…

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