From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Overflows (lisp fixnum-bignum conversion)
Date: 1997/04/08
Date: 1997-04-08T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.97Apr8134532@alexandria> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1997Apr2.202514.1843@nosc.mil
In article <01bc43ae$811f1680$3ef882c1@xhv46.dial.pipex.com> "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com> writes:
> precise temperature - which promise to be able to store the equivalent of
> 2^64 bytes of information easily (probably a lot more). Such computers
> would certainly have the potential for outsmarting humans by several orders
> of magnitude. This is actually true. Sleep well!
Despite folks like Dennett, I would be willing to bet basically
anything that the probability of this is zero.
/Jon
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-04-02 0:00 What Happened While I Wasn't Looking? Charles H. Sampson
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-05 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-05 0:00 ` Overflows (lisp fixnum-bignum conversion) Clayton Weaver
1997-04-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-09 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-04-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-06 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-09 0:00 ` Joel VanLaven
1997-04-12 0:00 ` Architectures Nick Roberts
1997-04-07 0:00 ` What Happened While I Wasn't Looking? Charles H. Sampson
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-04-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-08 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
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1997-04-08 0:00 Overflows (lisp fixnum-bignum conversion) Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93
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