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But you can definitely say "what is the meta information or algorithm to compute X". E.g. Pi is an irrational number, but we have a bunch of ways to specify pi (we just can't explicitly write down the full sequence of numbers). Another interesting thing, while the full sequence is not computable, any particular precision IS computable (ie for any number Y that you can write down exactly, you can compute the Y'th digit of pi).



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