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gyro@netcom.com (Scott L. Burson) writes:

>proof.  Ed Fredkin has done some work in this area also -- he pointed out, for
>instance, that energy is not required for storing information, but only for
>erasing it.  (An interesting observation, I think.)


Can you please expand upon this.

How is it that energy is not required for storing information?

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						-- Mark---
....we must realize that the infinite in the sense of an infinite totality, 
where we still find it used in deductive methods, is an illusion. Hilbert,1925
