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I'm still not clear on what the issue is. Like you said, the prisoners observe the sequence and thus know which equivalence class they're in. The choice functio
by belovedeagle 12y ago
I'm still not clear on what the issue is. Like you said, the prisoners observe the sequence and thus know which equivalence class they're in. The choice function (thanks to AC) gives them an "actual element" from that set.
- couchand 12y agoI'm saying it's incorrect to suggest they can enumerate a representative example of every equivalence class simply because they have a choice function. Of course they can pick an element from any of the equivalence classes in bounded time (by the Axiom of Choice) but that says nothing about picking an element from every one of those sets in bounded time.