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Suppose the continuous functions converged pointwise to the rationality indicator. Each $F_N$ is closed, sincePointwise convergence implies that every point belongs to some $F_N$: its eventual values lie near either zero or one. Thus $\mathbb{R}={\bigcup }_N{F}_N$. By the Baire category theorem, some $F_N$ contains a nonempty open interval $I$. Choose a rational $r\in I$ and an irrational $s\in I$. For sufficiently large $n\ge N$, convergence gives $f_n(r)>2/3$ and $f_n(s)<1/3$. The intermediate value theorem then forces $f_n$ to take the value $1/2$ between them, at a point in $I\subseteq F_N$. This contradicts the defining condition of $F_N$. Therefore the rationality indicator is not a pointwise limit of continuous functions, the rationality indicator is not Baire class one result.

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: