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 Apr 22 2010, 10:11 PM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 332 Joined: 15-February 10 From: CMU Member No.: 18,163  |
QUOTE (Draco18s @ Apr 22 2010, 04:36 PM)  A computer can not handle the following (logical) statement: "This statement is false." By evaluating as false the statement becomes true, but by evaluating as true the statement becomes false. In short, such a statement would crash a computer, as it has no way of resolving the conflict. The human brain on the other hand recognizes it as meaningless and discards it. In Chinese and Japanese this is called mu. Ooooh....Good quote from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance on the definition of mu: What's preventing a computer from discarding that statement as meaningless and discarding it, rather than trying to evaluate it? |
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Apr 22 2010, 10:13 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 10,289 Joined: 2-October 08 Member No.: 16,392 |
QUOTE (Tymeaus Jalynsfein @ Apr 22 2010, 06:10 PM) It's all good though... I am a long way from my Electrical Engineering classes these days... I got the lowest grade, of three sections, in my Systems Architecture 1 class (the class where they teach you how to build hardware). Amazingly I still passed. But in any case, IIRC, a 0 in computers isn't zero volts it's anything blow the threshold of 5 volts. A 1 is anything above. |
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