On Nov 23, 2008, at 11:24 AM, Brent Meeker wrote: > Kory Heath wrote: >> Or maybe I'm still misdiagnosing the problem. Is anyone arguing that, >> when you play back the lookup table like a movie, this counts as >> performing all of the Conway's Life computations a second time? > > Why shouldn't it?
Please see my recent response to Bruno. If we perform a complex computation which results in placing the integer "5" into some memory variable, and then later we copy the contents of that memory variable to some other location in memory, in what sense are we re-performing the original complex computation? -- Kory --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
