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For inexact information in the SCI hierarchy, replace every exact evaluation $\lambda \in \Lambda$ by a family of admissible approximations ${\lambda }_m$ satisfyingAn algorithm must converge for every admissible choice of approximations, not merely for one favored encoding.

For continuous nonsingular maps $F:X\to X$, take the evaluations to be arbitrary point queries. At precision $m$, a query at $x\in X$ returns any $y$ satisfyingThus the information set contains all triples $(x,m,y)$ satisfying this inequality. This is a perfect measurement device for a dynamical system: it can sample any state, at any requested accuracy, with no fixed noise floor. The finite-information rule still requires each terminating computation to make only finitely many such measurements.

Assume for contradiction that a sequence of general algorithms ${\Gamma }_n$ decides ergodicity from the perfect measurement data, so that ${\Gamma }_n(F)$ eventually equals ${\Xi }_{\mathrm{erg}}(F)$ for every $F\in \Omega$.

Restrict the input class to the circle rotationsFrom inexact information in the SCI hierarchy for the real number $a$, one can answer every requested measurement of $F_a(x)$ to the same precision. The supposed algorithms would therefore give a one-limit decision procedure forbecause part (b)(ii) identifies ergodicity with irrationality.

Every finite-information general algorithm is locally constant on a sufficiently small cylinder of the inexact data. A pointwise limit of a sequence of such functions is a Baire class one function. But the rationality indicator is discontinuous at every real number: every interval contains both rational and irrational numbers. The theorem that the discontinuity set of a Baire class one function is meagre, or directly rationality indicator is not Baire class one, gives a contradiction.

Hence no one-limit tower of general algorithms can decide ergodicity, even with the perfect measurement device: