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Subject: Re: Analog models of computation
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Date: Fri, 17-Oct-86 10:58:51 EDT
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>   I am interested in collecting examples of problems in the area of
> computation that are generally acknowledged to be reasonably to
> obscenely difficult using the digital computer model, but which have
> simple elegant solutions if one was allowed to construct some form
> of "analog" computer.  

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> R Day					rpjday@watrose.uucp
> CS Department                         rpjday%watrose@waterloo.csnet
> U. of Waterloo       rpjday%watrose%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa

There was a fairly good (I think) discussion of this topic in
_Scientific American_ in the "Computer Recreations" column recently
(I'd look it up but I just move and all my SA's are still packed). 
I would guess that the discussion was in one of the early 1986
issues, but it may have been 85 (memory startin' to go...).

It consisted of a discussion and a call for reader's ideas/examples, which
were then revealed in the following month's column.

It sounds like fun, so have some!

Daniel Soussan