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Julian Assange (proff@iq.org)
Tue, 7 Apr 1998 23:42:52 +1000 (EST)
> bram wrote:
> | Autistics are still doing real computation, whether they can figure out
> | the details or not. They're still restrained by the same complexity
> | theoretic principles of tractability as computers are.
>
> Fascinating. I'm sure you have a reference to some clever experiment
> that shows that autistics work that way?
>
> Adam
I'm unable to comment about prime generation, but there have been a number
of studies into arithmatic abilities of idiot savants (and regular
arithmatic savant's like von Neuman), which are highly suggestive
of non-optimal computational abilities. i.e time taken to produce the
n^2 takes O(log(n)_10^3) time etc.
Cheers,
Julian.
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:16:54 ADT