Re: [stack] Advantages of cat, joy ..?

Don Groves scripsit:

> Point taken. But your example is faulty. Blowing out the match
> doesn't reduce to the previous problem as then you no longer
> have a match! Try it with a cigarette lighter ;-)

A cigarette lighter has only one bit of state (it's on or off), but a
match has two bits of state: burning or not burning, plus unused or used.
Once you have flipped the latter bit, there's no way to flop it.
So a match has *history*, which is what makes it un-mathematical.

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