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		mrkeen on July 9, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The zombie misconception of theoretical computer s... > It's just that we wouldn't know what value the function had. I think there should be a word for that...

foldr on July 9, 2024 [–]

I don't think so. It's a pretty uninteresting property of a function whether or not a particular person happens to know its value for a given input. It does not entail that the function is not computable, if that's what you're suggesting.

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