Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aipdc From: aipdc@castle.ed.ac.uk (Paul D. Crowley) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Dear Roger, Message-ID: <2206@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 11 Feb 90 15:40:34 GMT References: Reply-To: aipdc@castle.ed.ac.uk (Paul D. Crowley) Organization: Edinburgh University Computing Service Lines: 9 I am a little confused by one part of this letter, which seems to suggest that including a randomizing device increases the problem solving capacity of a machine. I would have thought that that any non-random machine wishing to solve the same problems could explore all the paths that a random machine could take. -- This posting contains logical punctuation, for which I make no apology. It may be reproduced freely in part or whole correctly accredited. Paul D Crowley aipdc@uk.ac.ed.castle --- It wasn't me, it was my aardvark.