From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Sat Aug 28 2004 - 04:47:28 MDT
On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 02:09:16PM -0700, Daniel Radetsky wrote:
> If you prefer to talk about it in practical terms, we can just say we'll keep
> adding more memory as the computer's use of it increases. We don't have to
Bzzt. Relativistically constrained signalling in an inflationary universe.
> actually give it infinite memory, just more than it needs at any given time. In
This spacetime doesn't allow for infinite amount of computation, either in
time or in space.
> this case, we're talking about getting all the possible partitions of a number
> into two numbers (I believe this is the correct terminology; someone please
> correct me if I'm wrong), and then checking the two numbers for primality. This
> is probably a "bad" algorithm, and so we could probably add storage space far
> faster than it would use it up. For practical purposes, this is infinite memory.
You can't store nor process infinite bit sequences in a finite universe.
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