Equation 18 · Part 2 · A Horizon Is a Toll Booth, Not a Loophole
Symbol pi
What this part means
pi is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Its job in the formula
pi is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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The passage around this formula
mutually orthogonal states in elapsed time t [ 3 ] . Lloyd used the same bound to price computation itself: no amount of clever engineering lets a system with energy E execute logical operations faster than about 2E/ per second, a ceiling with nothing to do with any particular hardware [ 5 ] .
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