POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Knuth says so : Re: Knuth says so Server Time
9 Oct 2024 04:01:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Knuth says so  
From: Darren New
Date: 22 Jun 2009 22:50:14
Message: <4a4042e6$1@news.povray.org>
Tim Cook wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> Units can be encoded as numbers. Well *everything* can be encoded as 
>>> numbers. And numbers, of course, can be encoded as things.
>>
>> Nope. Sorry. That jug of milk in the fridge there? You can't encode 
>> that as numbers. No amount of numbers will pasteurize it either.
> 
> "Scotty!  Beam me up!"
> 
> or, "Encoding properties of mass for lightspeed transportation across 
> distance"
> 
> or, "Overcoming Heisenberg uncertainty issues in localised systems and 
> reconstructing that data set in another position"

Yeah, let me know when you have a working model there to show the patent 
office.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Insanity is a small city on the western
   border of the State of Mind.


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