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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!doc.ic.ac.uk!agate!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!acf3!silbrmnd
  2. From: silbrmnd@acf3.nyu.edu (Darkmage)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
  4. Subject: Re: The Humongous Look-up Table revisited.
  5. Message-ID: <BzxM8E.7Et@cmcl2.nyu.edu>
  6. Date: 27 Dec 92 19:02:38 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec22.211814.5623@u.washington.edu> <1992Dec23.174604.9946@sophia.smith.edu> <Bzst9t.79B@cmcl2.nyu.edu> <1992Dec26.132916.7342@sophia.smith.edu>
  8. Sender: notes@cmcl2.nyu.edu (Notes Person)
  9. Organization: New York University
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  11. Nntp-Posting-Host: acf3.nyu.edu
  12.  
  13. orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke) writes:
  14.  
  15. >In article <Bzst9t.79B@cmcl2.nyu.edu> silbrmnd@acf3.nyu.edu (Darkmage) writes:
  16.  
  17. >>   Q: What time do you think it is in Seattle right now?
  18. >>   A: Uh...  I think it's around {TIME_NOW - 5 HOUR /Hour Only} -ish.
  19.  
  20. >    It ceases to be a lookup table if such hooks into the contextual
  21. >reality are permitted.
  22.  
  23. If the machine in question has a built-in clock, the entry in the table
  24. would just be telling it to "insert time here"; all it's doing is 
  25. looking something up somewhere else.
  26.