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- From: hoey@zogwarg.etl.army.mil (Dan Hoey)
- Newsgroups: comp.theory
- Subject: Re: Real Numbers vs. Rational Numbers?
- Message-ID: <1277@zogwarg.etl.army.mil>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 18:45:31 GMT
- References: <1992Dec16.095412.19570@tom.rz.uni-passau.de> <1992Dec17.114502@di.epfl.ch>
- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
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- diderich@di.epfl.ch (Claude Diderich) writes:
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- >I asked myself some time ago the same question (e.g. are Turing
- >machines computing on real numbers equvalent on ones computing only
- >on rationals), but I was unable to find any answer. I was especially
- >intersted in complexity theoretical results.
-
- One interesting complexity non-result is the open question:
-
- Is the travelling salesman problem with cities on an integer
- lattice in NP?
-
- The numbers are non only real, but algebraic. Not only algebraic, but
- constructible!
-
- Dan Hoey
- Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil
-