On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> Even adding to your requirements that it have an ℵ₁ Hz bus (which, by >> the way, I *totally* want - the uses are endless), it would take a >> >> finite amount of time to assign to x the "next number", ergo your >> algorithm can't guarantee to finish in finite time. > > > If it's a quantum computer, it may be able to execute > all branches of the iteration in parallel. But it > would only have a probability of returning the right > answer (in other cases it would kill your cat).
Oh, that's fine, he's not my cat anyway. Go ahead, build it. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
