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From: aipdc@castle.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Digital Holography
Message-ID: <10210@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 13 May 91 09:36:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: castle.10210
References: <1991May10.165256.12414@nas.nasa.gov> <1991May11.152915.6488@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <1991May13.045426.7871@nas.nasa.gov>
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In article <1991May13.045426.7871@nas.nasa.gov> eugene@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
>3) Parallel architectures are an O(n) (or at best (n^2)) solution to
>problems that many times have greater complexity.  This is why students
>should take computing theory classes.

Yeah, what we really need is quantum mechanical computers!

(Quantum mechanical computers do different bits of the calulation in
different eigenstates.  Essentially, they can fork every millisecond
without limit.  The hard part is combining the results at the end, since
it's probabilistic.  Theoretically possible it is, "feasable" wouldn't
be my choice of wording...
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