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On 4/27/11 10:00 AM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> In XIX century a physicist would claim that knowing all initial states and
> velocities [and electric charges] of particles he would be able to describe
> i486 (running Linux etc) with any given precision. Today, we know that he
> could not. Which is the whole point. Newtonian mechanics fails to explain
> how a simple (single core! (:-)) processor works. In fact it cannot
> describe a single transistor.

Can you describe the effect of a set of interconnected
computer transistors using Boolean functions?