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To: tortoise
"Automata is irrelevant, though my example was still valid. Replace "automata" with "random noise source" and it is just as true."

Nonsense. You can show no example of random noise ever creating any useful program, much less any software of even "pedestrian" complexity.

56 posted on 02/28/2002 10:34:57 PM PST by Southack
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To: Southack
You can show no example of random noise ever creating any useful program, much less any software of even "pedestrian" complexity.

So you refute a theorem of mathematics (one that always seemed rather obvious and self-evident to me)? Not only can a random noise source produce a "useful" program, but I can calculate approximately how long it will take to generate any program of a specific length given a generation rate. If you are going to discard mathematics and hijack its terms when it suits you, then we aren't having a real discussion.

58 posted on 02/28/2002 10:43:17 PM PST by tortoise
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