5 Nov
2018
5 Nov
'18
4:09 p.m.
So what would be the single number that most computer science people would recognize and acknowledge as being representative of computer science?
Chaitin's constant represents computer science in a deep way: it embodies the eventual behaviour of every computer program. The only problem is that its numeric value depends on your choice of prefix-free encoding of computer programs. Best wishes, Adam P. Goucher