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- From: mpp@cs.brown.edu (Michael P. Perrone)
- Subject: Re: measuring complexity (was Re: Kolmogorov Complexity)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.223405.24071@cs.brown.edu>
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- Organization: Center for Neural Science, Brown University
- References: <1992Aug12.150857.219@access.digex.com> <1992Aug13.104511.29302@siesoft.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 22:34:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug13.104511.29302@siesoft.co.uk>, tomc@siesoft.co.uk (Tom Crossland) writes:
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- |> 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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- any memory address in this scheme would only take a finite amount
- of time to access. (except for that last one... :-)
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