On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 08:20:53PM +0100, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: > On 05.02.2012 22:46 Russell Standish said the following: > >On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 08:56:10PM +0100, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: > >> > >>In this respect your question is actually nice, as now, I believe, > >>we see that it is possible to have a case when the information > >>capacity will be more than the number of physical states. > >> > >>Evgenii > > > >How so? > > > > Take a coin and cool it to zero Kelvin. Here it was my question that > you have not answered yet. Do you assume that the text on the coin > will be destroyed during cooling? >
No. Previously, I mistakenly assumed that S=0 at T=0, which implies the text being destroyed. But as I said - I withdraw that comment, and any comment based on that mistaken assumption. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
