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echo: aust_c_here
to: Paul Murray
from: Michael Stapleton
date: 1993-05-22 09:49:00
subject: Re: RANDOM NUMERALS

RS> Anyway , can you explain me this 'Hiesenberg Uncertainty Principle' - i
                                       Heisenberg

PM> You can never mention a particle's momentum and position accurately.
 or Frequency (Energy) & Time for wave-like events.

PM> The uncertany principle is that the uncertanty of the measurement of its
PM> position * the uncertanty of the measurement of its momentum is never
PM> less than plank's constant (or h / 2Pi. Not sure.) This doesn't matter
              Planck's constant  / 2Pi.

PM> This would not appear to have much bearing on computers but at
PM> first glance neither does the second law of thermodynamics - but
PM> the second law has all sorts of implications for computing.
In computing, it's the memory usage * runtime.  Finding this minimal value
for a given algorithm is the province of Algorithmic Complexity Theory. It
cannot generally be computed because of Turing' Halting Problem.

PM> ... Danger, Robert Schonberger!  Off-topic messages!  Danger!

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