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Can someone give me a simple explanation of what a non-computable number is?

Asked by Zuma (5908points) January 11th, 2010

This is an actual (key) concept in mathematics and is a lot more complicated than it sounds. It came up in conjunction with a discussion of Omega, which is also a complete mystery to me.

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