On 4/7/2012 3:06 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 4/7/2012 14:17, Kevin Wampler wrote:
>> require very similar encoding of a problem
>
> I disagree that the encodings are similar.
>
>> in order for a computation to be performed, what are
>> you viewing as the critical distinction between them? After all both
>> essentially represent a problem as a string of symbols from an alphabet.
>
> Take, for example, quantum computers, for which this is untrue.
>

I was thinking more of existing computers, but you make a fair point.  I 
still find the definition of "calculation" you're implicitly using a 
pretty strange though, but to each their own.

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