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- From: orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke)
- Subject: Re: The Humongous Look-up Table revisited.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.184340.9502@sophia.smith.edu>
- Organization: Smith College, Northampton, MA, US
- References: <Bzst9t.79B@cmcl2.nyu.edu> <1992Dec26.132916.7342@sophia.smith.edu> <1hi72pINN5h2@uwm.edu>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 18:43:40 GMT
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- In article <1hi72pINN5h2@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec26.132916.7342@sophia.smith.edu> orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke) writes:
- >> It ceases to be a lookup table if such hooks into the contextual
- >>reality are permitted.
- >
- >The Lookup Table
- >Question Context Answer
- >Q0 C0 A0,0
- > C1 A0,1
- >...
- > Cn A0,n
- >Q1 C0 A1,0
- > C1 A1,1
- >...
- > Cn A1,n
- >...
- >Any finite function is a de facto lookup table.
-
- Perhaps then what is needed is a precise delimiting of what
- constitutes the input to the entity attempting to pass the TT. From
- your description above, the input would not merely be the questions
- posed by the interrogator, but rather would include the context --
- time, location, weather, political situation, etc.
-