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RE: Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's possible with today's technology.
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter () ukbroadband com>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 13:12:03 +0000
-----Original Message----- From: Leo Bicknell [mailto:bicknell () ufp org] Sent: 19 May 2011 14:10 To: nanog Subject: Re: Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's possible with today's technology. In a message written on Wed, May 18, 2011 at 09:52:22PM -0500, Brett Frankenberger wrote:That will work. Of course, the CPU usage will be overwhelming -- longer than the age of the universe to do a large file -- but, theoretically, with enough CPU power, it will work.You have a different definition of "work" than I do. If it can't finish before the universe ends I don't think it works. :)
You obviously do not read enough SciFi. By then (whenever then is) sub picoseconds optical quantum computers will be able to solve such problems before you knew they were problems ;-) -- Leigh Porter ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
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