From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C5CE13888F for ; Fri, 3 Apr 2015 11:06:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89700E09E6; Fri, 3 Apr 2015 11:06:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82728E0944 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 2015 11:06:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=wstn.localnet) by smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YdzQk-0008WV-HR for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 03 Apr 2015 11:06:30 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Question of quantum computer Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2015 12:06:30 +0100 Message-ID: <2074513.Jq2xfKgqVs@wstn> Organization: Society for Retired Gentlefolk User-Agent: KMail/4.14.3 (Linux/3.18.9-gentoo; KDE/4.14.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <20150403053030.61ad1705@hal9000.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01a-IP: [82.69.80.10] X-Archives-Salt: b737a1e4-d237-4321-8f18-637a4de9de96 X-Archives-Hash: 792fc02d23328cdbfd2592ea8a5bdf55 On Friday 03 April 2015 06:58:38 Rich Freeman wrote: > I'm not convinced that anybody has proven that quantum behavior is truly > non-deterministic But it must be, surely, since it's probabilistic. I don't see how the domain of probabilistic behaviour can overlap the domain of deterministic behaviour. -- Rgds Peter.