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Article #736Re: Help on problem needed!
From: Michael Meskes
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 12:02
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 12:02
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After all the discussion I started with my question on IF...THEN...ELSE in Prolog without using the Cut I think I should give all of you some more information. I don't like you all to think I can't do my homework myself. But this problem I posted isn`t my homework. I do not have any experience in programming Prolog and, to be honest, I'm also not interested in it, too. The only thing I'm interested in is pure first-order-logic with functional symbols. I only thought of Prolog to test the expressive power of this pure logic, in which I'm interested in as a side effect. It's not the main topic I'm working on. You can regard it as one very interesting example used in my work. If it seems to be such a stupid question that some of you thought of a student searching for someone to do his homework, why isn't there such an easy answer? All the answers are quite interesting but the don't solve the problem. As far as I know Prolog is turing-complete and the proofs I know don't use the Cut. So why isn't it possible to solve this problem im Prolog? If you still think I want you to do my homework try not to answer. Perhaps some of you are friendly enough to do though. But remember the predicate a isn't defined only using built-in comparisons like <. Michael -- Michael Meskes, Lehrstuhl fuer angewandte Mathematik insb. Informatik, RWTH-Aachen, Ahornstr. 55, D-W-5100 Aachen Email: meskes@ulysses.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE!ulysses!meskes From: meskes@ulysses.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Meskes) Subject: Re: Help on problem needed! Message-ID: <meskes.714916931@ulysses> Keywords: help Sender: news@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Newsfiles Owner) Nntp-Posting-Host: ulysses Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik / RWTH Aachen References: <meskes.713709771@ulysses> <1992Aug25.074623.25450@greco-prog.fr> <14219@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> Date: 27 Aug 92 12:02:11 GMT Lines: 28