Kory Heath wrote: > > 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?
That's different since, ex hypothesi, the original calculation was complex. So we can say just putting the answer, 5, in a register is not repeating the calculation based on some complexity measure of the process. Brent --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
