From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon May 11 1998 - 03:24:16 MDT
Hara Ra <harara@shamanics.com> writes:
> A nice literary conceit, but there's a leetle problem. The algorithm used
> to generate PI can be written in a few thousand bytes of computer code,
> therfore
> the information content of PI is actually quite small, not enough to store
> the plans for a Contact Machine.....
Well, maybe a Contact Machine is actually quite simple algorithmically
speaking. Remember that the Mandelbrot set is very complicated, but
generated by a short program.
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