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Perry E. Metzger (perry@piermont.com)
Tue, 07 Apr 1998 15:16:04 -0400
Adam Shostack writes:
> | 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?
There have, in fact, been tests done. According to what I have read,
people who are 'lightning calculators' take cleanly predictable
periods to do various sized computations, and those times grow as the
size of the problem in very non-magical ways. I don't have a reference
handy, but several scholarly books have been written on "lightning
calculator" phenomena.
Perry
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:16:54 ADT