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>From: orourke@fermat.cs.jhu.edu (Joseph O'Rourke)
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Subject: Re: A rock implements every FSA
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Date: 19 Mar 92 02:40:29 GMT
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In article <45094@dime.cs.umass.edu> 
	orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke) writes:

[an attempt to skirt Anthony Francis's objection to Mikhail Zeleny's
interpretation of Putnam]:

>if we list out all possible traces that
>the FSA could make on any input, string them end-to-end, and map
>those lists of traces to the rock's physical states, then all possibile
>state transitions of the FSA are "realized" in the rock.  It seems to
>me that this is right.

	Sorry, I'm quite wrong here, as there are an infinite number
of possible FSA traces.


