Timeline for List of long open, elementary problems which are computational in nature
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| Apr 24, 2020 at 15:45 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Apr 24, 2020 at 15:19 | comment | added | Wojowu | While computing a continued fraction is certainly a computational task, showing that a continued fraction has bounded coefficients certainly is not, and I don't see how you could in any reasonable sense "compute" such a number. | |
| Apr 24, 2020 at 14:56 | comment | added | Stanley Yao Xiao | The question allows for the prospect of computing the existence of an object, and constructing such an algebraic integer could be considered as such. Further, computing the continued fraction expansion of a given real number is, by nature, computational. | |
| Apr 24, 2020 at 14:55 | comment | added | JoshuaZ | What is the computational aspect of this problem? | |
| Apr 24, 2020 at 14:52 | history | answered | Stanley Yao Xiao | CC BY-SA 4.0 |