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- From: dzik@access.digex.com (Joseph Dzikiewicz)
- Subject: Re: measuring complexity (was Re: Kolmogorov Complexity)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.150857.219@access.digex.com>
- Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
- References: <arms.713457373@spedden> <1992Aug10.163725.26986@julian.uwo.ca> <1992Aug10.115352.1@acad3.alaska.edu>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:08:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug10.115352.1@acad3.alaska.edu> fxsdb@acad3.alaska.edu (Scott D. Berry) writes:
- >an
- >assembly language program, for example, may have an infinite number of states.
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- Actually, unless you have an assembly language that allows addressing
- infinite memory, even an assembly language program has a finite
- number of states (a large number, admittedly, but still finite).
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- This lack of infinite memory is why digital computers are of equal
- computing power to a finite state machine and considerably less powerful
- than a Turing machine. Admittedly, a computer with megabytes of memory
- is a finite state machine with a lot of states, but it's still not
- Turing-equivalent.
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- Joe Dzikiewicz
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