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16 Post author: rwallace 30 July 2011 06:56AM

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Comment author: rwallace 30 July 2011 07:57:22PM 4 points [-]

Or maybe it's being run on a one-dimensional cellular automaton or a Turing machine etc. What of it? Regardless, the system in question is simulating space with, apparently, a granularity of at least 1e-48 meters, and there remains the question of whether it is using finite or infinite computing power.