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- From: muttiah@thistle.ecn.purdue.edu (Ranjan S Muttiah)
- Subject: Re: Bayes' theorem and QM
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.160942.7238@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Keywords: infinite
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:09:42 GMT
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- In article <5915@osc.COM> jgk@osc.COM (Joe Keane) writes:
- >If you think so, please show me some pieces that you could make out of
- >something real like wood, such that that they almost fit together into either
- >one sphere or two. Also please show me a computer chip that can store an
- >infinite amount of information. In fact i'll be generous, you only have to
- >store an arbitrarily large amount of information.
-
- Actually, there was an interesting snippet in the Sci. Am ('88 I believe)
- about a mathematician who had molded goldbars into a sphere and had
- successfully disassembled and then reassembled it into two more spheres using
- very sensitive robots. Supposedly he had automated the process and has built
- a factory somewhere deep in the South American forests. If you have been
- observing the gold prices lately, you wouldn't be surprised!
-
- :-).
-