Re: U.S. to build world's fastest computer

From: cascade (cascares_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/30/04

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    "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net> wrote in message news:<VqWdnVZ8c4UtjCXdRVn-tw@comcast.com>...
    > cascade wrote:
    > > Ckwop@hotmail.com (Simon Johnson) wrote...
    > >>Even if you had a grid of weather stations such that each station is a
    > >>metre from each other and this grid incircled the world and extended
    > >>right in to space then even with infinite computing power you still
    > >>wouldn't be able to tell whether it's going to be overcast or sunny in
    > >>new york 25 days from now.
    > > Why is that? Quantum mechanics events amplified to macroscopic dimensons?
    >
    > It has nothing to do with quantum mechanics,
    > but merely with the chaotic nature of the
    > evolution. (Sensitive dependence on initial
    > conditions.)

    He said "infinite computing power." With infinite computing power you
    can get infinite precision.

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