From: tmoran@acm.org
Subject: Re: Generation of permutations
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 03:37:20 GMT
Date: 2002-05-10T03:37:20+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <PfHC8.578$To4.77821283@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3CDB0BB2.DF5ECED0@san.rr.com
> determine if that set of instructions implements a sort. "Reliably"
> implies "always", doesn't it? I mean, if I give you a block of
> instructions and ask "does this implement a sort", and sometimes you can
> say "Yes, I'm sure it does", and sometimes you can only say "I can't
> tell", then doesn't that mean your program doesn't reliably give the
> right answer?
This is almost as bad as philosophy in terms of one person thinking,
erroneously, that another person interprets a statement the same way.
To me, "reliably" does not imply "always". It simply implies that
it never gives a *wrong* answer. A time traveler from the future
might be totally reliable when he predicts the outcome of a presidential
election, but he might not know, and thus wouldn't tell me, if the
penny I'm tossing will come up heads.
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2002-04-29 11:54 Generation of permutations Reinert Korsnes
2002-04-30 13:52 ` Ted Dennison
2002-04-30 14:20 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-02 12:32 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-02 15:47 ` Ted Dennison
2002-05-02 16:16 ` Mark Biggar
2002-05-03 13:04 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-05 0:52 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-05 23:11 ` tmoran
2002-05-06 2:13 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-05-06 13:52 ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-09 17:44 ` Darren New
2002-05-09 18:07 ` Stephen Leake
2002-05-09 20:58 ` Darren New
2002-05-09 23:21 ` tmoran
2002-05-09 23:51 ` Darren New
2002-05-10 3:37 ` tmoran [this message]
2002-05-10 3:59 ` Darren New
2002-05-10 13:13 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-25 16:21 ` Robert I. Eachus
2002-05-09 23:24 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-09 23:48 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-10 3:37 ` tmoran
2002-05-10 15:10 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-05-11 4:04 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-16 1:35 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-05-11 4:05 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-06 15:46 ` Wes Groleau
2002-05-06 16:21 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-05-06 16:33 ` Darren New
2002-05-07 0:06 ` tmoran
2002-05-07 0:26 ` Darren New
2002-05-07 1:56 ` tmoran
2002-05-07 10:39 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-07 17:25 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-05-08 2:27 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-08 8:44 ` Mats Karlssohn
2002-05-07 17:00 ` Wes Groleau
2002-05-06 21:33 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-06 17:26 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-07 7:35 ` tmoran
2002-05-07 13:22 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-08 5:23 ` tmoran
2002-05-08 14:10 ` Marin David Condic
2002-05-09 16:20 ` Darren New
2002-05-09 19:04 ` tmoran
2002-05-08 16:20 ` Darren New
2002-05-08 17:31 ` tmoran
2002-05-08 17:39 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-05-07 15:34 ` Darren New
2002-05-07 17:44 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-05-07 19:58 ` tmoran
2002-05-07 21:05 ` Turing-undecidable languages (OT) Chad R. Meiners
2002-05-08 8:24 ` Danx
2002-05-08 17:16 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-05-10 2:37 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-08 9:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-05-08 17:18 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-05-09 20:56 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-05-09 16:18 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-05-10 2:52 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-08 2:17 ` Generation of permutations Robert Dewar
2002-05-03 13:13 ` Ted Dennison
2002-05-03 13:24 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2002-04-30 15:06 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-05-01 8:40 ` Adrian Hoe
2002-05-01 19:53 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-05-11 1:52 ` Steven Deller
2002-05-02 16:24 ` Mark Biggar
2002-04-30 17:12 ` Wes Groleau
2002-04-30 22:57 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-01 0:54 ` tmoran
2002-05-01 9:42 ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-02 12:34 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-01 12:43 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-01 15:05 ` TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Wes Groleau
2002-05-02 12:27 ` More on copyright, (Re: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN) Robert Dewar
2002-05-08 13:56 ` Wes Groleau
2002-05-08 18:01 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-08 18:31 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-05-09 13:41 ` Wes Groleau
2002-05-01 12:46 ` Generation of permutations Robert Dewar
2002-05-01 18:22 ` OT:Copyright, was " tmoran
2002-05-01 21:56 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-01 23:45 ` tmoran
2002-05-02 11:58 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-01 14:55 ` Wes Groleau
2002-05-02 12:41 ` Robert Dewar
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