nLab computable real number

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Context

Analysis

Constructivism, Realizability, Computability

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Idea

A real number object interpreted in computable mathematics (in realizability) yields the computable real numbers (often just called computable numbers). This is a core object in computable analysis/exact analysis.

Typically a computable real number is an algorithm that successively produces a sequence of rational numbers that approximate a given real number ever more closely.

References

  • Klaus Weihrauch, section 4.1 of Computable Analysis Berlin: Springer, 2000

  • Andrej Bauer, section 5.2 of Realizability as connection between constructive and computable mathematics, in T. Grubba, P. Hertling, H. Tsuiki, and Klaus Weihrauch, (eds.) CCA 2005 - Second International Conference on Computability and Complexity in Analysis, August 25-29,2005, Kyoto, Japan, ser. Informatik Berichte, , vol. 326-7/2005. FernUniversität Hagen, Germany, 2005, pp. 378–379. (pdf)

  • Wikipedia, Computable number

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