Re: POLL: Would you use Ada more if...

[ada@polarhome.com (Anatoly Chernyshev)]

dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote in message news:<5ee5b646.0208271741.45930506@posting.google.com>...
> ada@polarhome.com (Anatoly Chernyshev) wrote in message news:<2a038d0e.0208271023.6b0fc44e@posting.google.com>...
> > Dmitry A.Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message news:<akflgg$1hdrbh$1@ID-77047.news.dfncis.de>...
>  
> > This is just an estimation made for fun, so I may be totally wrong.
> 
> Well in general it is certainly possible to store information in devices
> where the mass of a 0 and 1 are identical. For example, consider a slider
> with a weight sliding on it. If the weight is at one end it is a 0 and
> if it is at the other, it is a 1. Clearly the mass is the same in both
> cases, so I think the argument from entropy change is bogus :-)

It was a mere formal approach. Yet the mass difference of  4.61E-32 kg
is just
about 0.05 of electron mass, i.e. quite negligible and hardly
measurable.
If you, Dr. Dewar, want a real bogus, step on the floor scales and
check your mass. Then raise your left hand, raise your right hand and
watch how your mass is changing.