Abstract
Vagueness is something everyone is familiar with. In fact, most people think that vagueness is closely related to language and exists only there. However, vagueness is a property of the physical world. Quantum computers harness superposition and entanglement to perform their computational tasks. Both superposition and entanglement are vague processes. Thus quantum computers, which process exact data without “exploiting” vagueness, are actually vague computers.
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Speculations about higher dimensions, parallel universes, etc., will remain speculations until there is solid proof about their existence.
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\(\mathbf {F}\) has to be a subclass of the power set \(2^X\). Also, it must satisfy the following conditions: (a) \(X\in \mathbf {F}\); (b) for all \(E,F\in \mathbf {F}\), \(E-F\in \mathbf {F}\); and (c) for all \(E_i\in \mathbf {F}\), \(i=1,2,\ldots \), \(\bigcup _{i=1}^{+\infty }E_{i}\in F\).
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\(\mu \) is monotone if and only if \(E,F\in \mathbf {F}\) and \(E\subset F\) imply \(\mu (E)\le \mu (F)\).
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A function \(f:X\rightarrow (-\infty ,+\infty )\) on X is measurable if and only if \(f^{-1}(B)=\{x\mathrel {|}f(x)\in B\}\in \mathbf {F}\) for any Borel set \(B\in \mathcal {B}\). Now, assume that X is the real line. Then, the class of all bounded, left closed, and right open intervals, denoted by \(\mathcal {B}\), is the class of Borel sets.
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A mathematical response to this question has been recently given by Gerla [6].
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Syropoulos, A. (2017). On Vague Computers. In: Adamatzky, A. (eds) Emergent Computation . Emergence, Complexity and Computation, vol 24. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46376-6_17
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