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>From: pindor@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor)
Subject: Re: Physical limits when programming neurons and minds
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References: <43772@mimsy.umd.edu> <288@tdatirv.UUCP> <57751@netnews.upenn.edu> <1991Nov29.164139.1588@morrow.stanford.edu> <57850@netnews.upenn.edu> <445@trwacs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1991 21:17:26 GMT

In article <445@trwacs.UUCP> erwin@trwacs.UUCP (Harry Erwin) writes:
>I believe that Schroedinger's equation has not been solved for many-body
>systems with reasonably large numbers of charged particles (somewhere
>around 4). 
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>...
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>-- 
>Harry Erwin
>Internet: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com

If you talk about exact (?) solutions, you are right, but very good approximate 
solutions (e.g. variational method) exist for many-electron atoms (using, for
instance, Configuration Interaction approach) - with few tens of electrons.
-- 
Andrzej Pindor
University of Toronto
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