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- From: dzik@access.digex.com (Joseph Dzikiewicz)
- Subject: Re: measuring complexity (was Re: Kolmogorov Complexity)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.183256.20441@access.digex.com>
- Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
- References: <1992Aug10.115352.1@acad3.alaska.edu> <1992Aug12.150857.219@access.digex.com> <BsxH2n.Ks4@math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 18:32:56 GMT
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- In article <BsxH2n.Ks4@math.uwaterloo.ca> jfbuss@math.uwaterloo.ca (Jonathan Buss) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug12.150857.219@access.digex.com> dzik@access.digex.com (Joseph Dzikiewicz) writes:
- >
- >>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.
- >>
- >
- >This observation begs the question, why are digital computers modelled
- >as infinite-state machines? Can one obtain more realistic results by
- >using finite-state machines as the model?
- >
- I suspect it is because of the difficulties of dealing with finite-state
- machines with really large numbers of states. Analysis of algorithms
- usually ignores the fact that any existing computer can only deal with
- some finitely large input.
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- Joe Dzikiewicz
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