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On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:31:08 -0400, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> On 9/5/2012 10:41 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> 
> > True. In principle, some day there might be a version of Python that runs
> > on some exotic quantum computer where the very concept of "physical
> > address" is meaningless.
> 
> You mean like the human brain? When people execute Python code, does 0 
> have an address?

	I suspect some day in the future various CAT and similar scanners
will be able to capture the entire brain (3D) in real-time, at which
point a statistical analysis of many people will be able to assign a 3D
Cartesian coordinate to the main activity associated with the concept of
0 (of course, we'll have to differentiate the concept of the glyph 0
from the concept of the quantity/number zero from the word zero...)
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