[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

A better example would be, "If you wrote a calculator program that always gave
the right answer would that mean you completely understand the *rules* of
arithmetic?" And the answer would be yes.

You would have a program that understood *some set* of rules. I can write a calculator by generating a honking big lookup table. That's my rules of arithmetic.

That doesn't mean I understand the deeper rules. I would understand arithmetic at a very shallow level of abstraction if all I had were lookup tables.

-a

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