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>From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
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Subject: Re: lookup tables again
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In article <1992Apr1.011348.11035@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> bill@NSMA.AriZonA.EdU 
(Bill Skaggs) writes:
>  Suppose we imagine that the universe has a finite number of
>possible states, and that time is quantized.  (If quantum
>mechanics is correct and the universe is finite, both of
>these are true.)  

I don't think this is correct.  For one thing, it's not known if space is
quantized, so positions may still be real numbers.  And I don't think
it's known that time is quantized, either.  For that matter, the universe
can't be a FSA if it's not deterministic, can it?


