> Not our kind of complexity, but interesting.
>
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/652> Gosling sez that it would be better if a program could
> use the expressions natural to a given expertise. So
> for example, a mathematician should be able to simply
> write an equation in the program, similarly for other
> fields.
>
> Owen Densmore
A friend told me that in Traub's recent SFI lecture on continuous
quantum algorithms, he suggested that Turing machines should be extended
to include real numbers so that they could more easily describe
algorithms on the continuum. Strange idea since all of our actual
computers (lacking a dense set of infinite tapes) make do with finite
approximations.
-Roger
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