To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.roboticsOpen lugnet.robotics in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Robotics / 5061
5060  |  5062
Subject: 
Re: recursion (was RE: Would-be hacker queries.)
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Thu, 13 May 1999 14:27:43 GMT
Original-From: 
Rich Clemens <CLEMENS@saynotospamWVWC.EDU>
Viewed: 
3582 times
  
> since CPUs are, in fact, iterative?

How so?

--
Richard Clemens
Associate Professor
Computer Science Department
West Virginia Wesleyan College
Buckhannon, West Virginia  26201
clemens@wvwc.edu
304.473.8421


----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: John A. Tamplin <jat@liveonthenet.com>
Cc: Anders Isaksson <isaksson.etuna@ebox.tninet.se>;
<lego-robotics@crynwr.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 1999 6:01 AM
Subject: Re: recursion (was RE: Would-be hacker queries.)


> John A. Tamplin wrote:
> > I am not familiar with that function, but I believe I recall a proof in • a
> > graduate CS theory class that any recursive algorithm could be
> > transformed into an iterative one.  Do you have a reference for this
> > function?
> 
> And, BTW, isn't this intuitively obvious, since CPUs are, in fact,
> iterative?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ben.
> 
> --
> http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html
> 
> "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those
> who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the
> first group; there was less competition there."
>      - Indira Gandhi
> --
> Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics

--
Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics



Message has 1 Reply:
  Re: recursion (was RE: Would-be hacker queries.)
 
(...) What do you mean? The algorithm a CPU uses (at least, any I'm familiar with) to execute code is an iterative algorithm (i.e. fetch instructions, decode, execute, go round again). Cheers, Ben. -- (URL) grandfather once told me that there are (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)

Message is in Reply To:
  Re: recursion (was RE: Would-be hacker queries.)
 
(...) And, BTW, isn't this intuitively obvious, since CPUs are, in fact, iterative? Cheers, Ben. -- (URL) grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)

21 Messages in This Thread:






Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact

This Message and its Replies on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR