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RE: Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Thu May 19 09:11:48 2011
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>, nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 13:12:03 +0000
In-Reply-To: <20110519130817.GB96593@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> -----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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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 pi=
coseconds optical quantum computers will be able to solve such problems be=
fore you knew they were problems ;-)
--
Leigh Porter
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