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Eugine_Nier comments on Irrationality Game II - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 07 July 2012 05:58:19AM 0 points [-]

If particles snap to grid once you get down far enough, then there are a finite, though very large, number of ways you could configure atoms and stuff them into a limited amount of space.

It's called the Bekenstein bound and it doesn't require discreteness.