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In theory, no. For practical purposes, mostly yes. See: Buridan's Principle. Also: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/buridan.pdf http:
by krona 10y ago
In theory, no. For practical purposes, mostly yes.
See: Buridan's Principle. Also: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/buridan.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/b...
This was a real issue in hardware design in the 60's.
- metaphor 10y agoThanks for the paper link...I feel like I've encountered it before somewhere, maybe here or back in uni as an undergrad. Wiki[1] noted its relation to metastability in digital architectures. That's a phenomena I'm very much familiar with. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan's_ass#Application_to_digital_logic:_metastability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan's_ass#Application_to_d...