Building infinite machines

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 52 (4):671-682 (2001)
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We describe in some detail how to build an infinite computing machine within a continuous Newtonian universe. The relevance of our construction to the Church-Turing thesis and the Platonist-Intuitionist debate about the nature of mathematics is also discussed.

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