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onraglanroadyesterday at 6:17 PM0 repliesview on HN

Nobody knows.

That's the reason why you were pointed to Hardy's Mathematician's Apology. He was talking about how his works would never have a practical use.

It turns out he was wrong, because Computers are mathematics made flesh. All these abstract notions suddenly had a practical use.

There is something fundamental about the limits of computing so there might well be something that can be made of the BB function but at the moment it's just pure maths.