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Elegant Lisp Programs (Chaitin)
Call a program "elegant" if no smaller program has the same output. I.e., a LISP S-expression is defined to be elegant if no smaller S-expression has the same value. It is impossible to prove that any particular large program is elegant.
chaitin  gödel  math  copsci  lisp  programming 
march 2007 by stuhlmueller
Kraft's inequality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a uniquely decodable code for a given set of codeword lengths. Relevant for binary trees, Chaitin's constant.
compsci  chaitin 
february 2007 by stuhlmueller
The Unknowable by Gregory J. Chaitin
Chaitin compares and contrasts Gödel's, Turing's and his own work in a straight-forward manner using Lisp.
chaitin  gödel  turing  math  compsci  lisp 
january 2007 by stuhlmueller

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