On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Lukasz Stafiniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> P.S. The biggest issue that spoiled my joy of reading "Permutation
> City" is that you cannot simulate dynamic systems ( = solve
> numerically differential equations) out-of-order, you need to know
> time "t" to compute time "t+1" (or, alternatively, you need to know
> "t+2")

Yes...

> the same goes for space, I presume you need to know x-1,x,x+1
> to compute the next-step x.

No, x+1 is not a function of x. That's the _definition_ of time: a
dimension in which t+1 is a function of t.


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