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| Jun 20, 2022 at 11:01 | comment | added | Bennett McElwee | I think mathematician N cannot determine N since they don't know whether v[N]=M[N]. Therefore what we can actually say is "Mathematician i with i<N can determine N, however each mathematician with i≥N only knows that N≤i." The rest of the proof works anyway but it took me a while to see why; I have set out my reasoning in a new answer. | |
| Jan 1, 2014 at 23:51 | comment | added | user44653 | Thanks, that's an elegant argument; the result is surprising too. | |
| Dec 28, 2013 at 23:32 | vote | accept | user44653 | ||
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| Dec 27, 2013 at 4:10 | history | answered | Eric Naslund | CC BY-SA 3.0 |