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DSPACE, etc.

Thanks for several corrections and a {{dn}} fix. I don't know why I didn't see Alternation (complexity)...

CRGreathouse (t | c) 05:56, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. You didn't see it because I fixed the disambiguation page for Alternation to list Alternation (complexity) instead of (algorithms), and created a redirect from (complexity) -> Alternating TM, after you were done disambiguating. --Robin (talk) 13:54, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

AM,MA

Hi Robin, thanks for the fix in Arthur–Merlin_protocol. I saw that the current condition for AM reads as follows (and is correct)

if x is not in L, then $\Pr \nolimits _{y\in \{0,1\}^{p(n)}}(\forall z\in \{0,1\}^{q(n)}\,M(x,y,z)=0)\geq 2/3.$

I wanted to note that it can be equally written as

if x is not in L, then $\Pr \nolimits _{y\in \{0,1\}^{p(n)}}(\exists z\in \{0,1\}^{q(n)}\,M(x,y,z)=1)\leq 1/3.$

However, the second condition seems to go well together with the x is in L condition, as 2/3 and 1/3 add up to 1. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sg313d (talk • contribs) 07:37, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I felt the first one contrasts better with the condition for x in L, since for x in L, the condition says that "there exists" something, I felt the condition for x not in L would look better if it said something like "for all". Both are correct though, and I wouldn't mind changing to the other definition if that seems clearer. Also, this way it looks similar to the definition of MA. --Robin (talk) 13:17, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I decided to add both definitions, since there's no harm giving extra information. --Robin (talk) 13:50, 18 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have marked you as a reviewer

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Alright, thanks. --Robin (talk) 13:36, 18 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Quantum phase estimation algorithm

H Robin. Thanks for having a go at improving this article. However in doing so you have inadvertantly reverted some of my encyclopedic tone edits. Please restore these if you can in order to avoid the use of personal pronouns such as you and we and phrases that could be considered to be the opinion of the author: ( {{cn}} tags). Thanks. --Kudpung (talk) 04:10, 25 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I got rid of the "we" in the lead. I did not remove any of your {{cn}} tags, only a {{whom}} tag, because the previous line proves the assertion. --Robin (talk) 04:22, 25 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]