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- From: tomc@siesoft.co.uk (Tom Crossland)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.ai,comp.compression,comp.theory
- Subject: Re: measuring complexity (was Re: Kolmogorov Complexity)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.104511.29302@siesoft.co.uk>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 10:45:11 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.150857.219@access.digex.com>
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- dzik@access.digex.com (Joseph Dzikiewicz) writes:
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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).
-
- If you used indirect addressing it could be overcome. ie, if
- your instruction pointed to a block of memory, which in turn
- had a flag and the offset of another block of memory, which
- also had a flag and the offset to another block of memory,
- etc, etc, etc you could in theory address an infinite amount
- of memory (OK so it might take an infinite number of
- instruction executions, but that's a small price to pay ;-)).
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