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From: yee@edison.seas.ucla.edu (John Yee)
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Subject: Re: What is "fuzzy logic"?
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Date: 30 Mar 91 07:29:48 GMT
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While we are all asking questions about fuzzy logic (my understanding
being that it allows for more uncertainty that true/false), can someone
tell me how it is actually implemented on a computer.

Being but an ignoramus in all languages newer than Fortran, I naively
think that in making a decision, a computer has to execute as statement
like "if x > 10 then [do something]".  How would a computer decide whether
an object is "tall" without something like "if x > 999 then (x in tall)"?

Thanks, yee@seas.ucla.edu