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From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Overflows (lisp fixnum-bignum conversion)
Date: 1997/04/08
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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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