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Monday, March 28, 2022

Listable sets

 Definition:

A set AZ is listable if there is an algorithm that prints it.

Picked up this short and sweet definition from Undecidability in Number Theory

Clearly Diophantine sets are listable. Others include

  • the set of all primes
  • the set of Fibonacci numbers

A set of integers expressible as sum of three cubes is listable. 

For example, one can list elements using the following Mathematica code.

scp[z_] :=
 FindInstance[z == x^3 + y^3 + t^3, {x, y, t}, PositiveIntegers]
listS = Map[scp, Range[10]]

As we change the Range, we get larger and larger lists. The fact we have an algorithm that yields a list of elements is sufficient to characterize listable sets.

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