Re: paper claiming p=np and soap bubbles
From: Thomas Nordhaus (thnord2002_at_yahoo.de)
Date: 07/07/04
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Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 23:21:53 +0200
pfreedenberg@hotmail.com (phil) schrieb:
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>Nature has lots of analog computers. Our numerical solutions are
>almost always done on digital computers. More accurate, but slower.
There ia a paradox here, right? We use digital computers to simulate
nature, which is an anlog computer. And then we say that our
simulation is more accurate then the the analog computer which we were
just trying to simulate in the first place. Isn't that delusion of
grandeur?
Thomas
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