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|    Re: is the ct-thesis cooked? (2/2)    |
|    16 Jan 26 18:21:10    |
      [continued from previous message]              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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