Re: why can't we erase information?

From: Wei Dai <weidai.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 00:48:39 -0700

Jesse Mazer:
 I have a vague memory that there was some result showing the algorithmic
> complexity of a string shouldn't depend too strongly on the details of the
> Turing machine--that it would only differ by some constant amount for any
> two different machines, maybe? Does this ring a bell with anyone?

That is correct, but the constant is a multiplicative one, and could be made
arbitrarily large.



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