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- From: pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
- Subject: Re: Probabilistic Turing Machines
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- Reply-To: pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
- Organization: Edinburgh University
- References: <1993Jan5.191925.27528@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1993Jan6.033354.4587@cs.yale.edu>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:53:14 GMT
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- Quoting fischer-michael@cs.yale.edu (Michael Fischer) in article <1993Jan6.033354.4587@cs.yale.edu>:
- >
- >: 3) Assuming (2), are there any deterministic problems that have a lower
- >: complexity for probabilistic Turing machines than deterministic ones?
- >
- >: 4) Is is known that there are no such problems?
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- >If I understand your questions, the answers to (2) and (4) are both
- >trivially "no".
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- What happens if we ask only that the probability that the program fails
- to complete within the lower time bound tends to zero as the size of the
- problem tends to infinity?
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