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Re: Human Computational Abilities
Date: Mon Feb 06 2006 - 00:00:18 CET
In article <1138940286.724989.145660@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
"hassan.jameel@gmail.com" <hassan.jameel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi ... thanks for your replies ... the source for that estimate was an
> old one ... that being my mistake ... it is taken from "Computers and
> Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness" first edition
> ( published way back in 1979) ... of course modern day computers are
> way faster than that ... however my question was the relative speed of
> computation of humans vs computers ... or in other words what amount of
> work becomes intractable for humans ...
Giving a straight and / or truthful answer to any question.
True for a large (98%+) percentage of Terrans.
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Received on Tue Feb 7 21:00:01 2006