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Re: quantum Computing

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Busdiecker)
Wed May 18 14:29:48 1994

To: m5@vail.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 May 1994 13:03:43 CDT."
             <9405181803.AA11052@vail.tivoli.com> 
From: Rick Busdiecker <rfb@lehman.com>
Reply-To: Rick Busdiecker <rfb@lehman.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 14:15:06 -0400

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    Date: Wed, 18 May 94 13:03:43 CDT
    From: m5@vail.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
    
    An NFA has no tape . . .

Mine does :-)

It's a matter of definition, I suppose.  Hopcroft and Ullman describe
an NFA as having a tape.

On the other hand, they also descript the NP Completeness in terms of
an NTM, so I'll concede your point.

			Rick

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