From: Jim choate <ravage@bga.com>
To: m5@vail.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
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UTC Datetime: 1994-03-30 20:50:13 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 30 Mar 94 12:50:13 PST
From: Jim choate <ravage@bga.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 94 12:50:13 PST
To: m5@vail.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
Subject: Re: Crypto and new computing strategies
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>
> Jim choate writes:
> > > Complexity theory doesn't have anything to do with any world, macro-
> > > or micro- or mega- or whatever. It's mathematics.
> >
> > Complexity theory is mathematics so I would have to say your last
> > assertion is total drivel.
>
> I think you've misunderstood. What I meant was that because it's a
> purely mathematical set of concepts, it doesn't have anything to do
> with hardware details.
>
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I have to disagree, the implimentation of such a theory by a physical model
will have some hardware dependancy.
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