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   Richard Damon to But the only "operations" that a tu   
   Re: is the ct-thesis cooked? (2/2)   
   16 Jan 26 18:21:10   
   
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   Should 1 + 2 become 4 on Thursdays? of it asked of a gingerbread man?   
      
   All you are doing is saying you disagree with the definition.   
      
   Go ahead, try to define an alternate version of Computation Theory where   
   the result can depend on things that aren't part of the actual input to   
   the machine, and see what you can show that is useful.   
      
   The problem becomes that you can't really say anything about what you   
   will get, since you don't know what the "hidden" factors are.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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