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7 Sep 2024 05:10:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Aren't complexity classes fun?  
From: Darren New
Date: 30 Jul 2008 13:16:44
Message: <4890a1fc$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> On the other hand, according to my sums 10^80 is roughly 2^266. Thus, 
>> the binary chop algorithm requires only 266 operations, and can easily 
>> complete the entire process in well under a second. [If we assume 
>> completely random access to any atom in the universe, which completely 
>> defies several known physical laws...]
> 
>   It would require for the atoms to be sorted in a specific order.
> How would you sort them?

Clearly by the value of the time component of the space-time event where 
the atom currently exists. ;-)

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)


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