Apologies - make that so could be the time ! Also given quantum effects how can anyone say that interaction of n objects is restricted in that way - we can't even be sure that the smallest objects are the quarks etc. On 11 Aug 2015, at 22:35, David Makin wrote:
On 11 Aug 2015, at 14:58, Warren D Smith wrote:
NO ALGORITHM RUNNING IN OUR UNIVERSE CAN TAKE LONGER THAN SIMPLE EXPONENTIAL TIME exp(polynomial(N)) WHERE N IS THE NUMBER OF PARTICLES INVOLVED. _________________________
Who says nature sticks to non-transcendental polynomials - if the highest degree in the polynomial is infinite then so's the time.
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