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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Besides being a profound and entertaining meditation on thought and creativity, prospects for computers and artificial intelligence for mimicking human thought are also discussed.
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Performance

Although strings are more natural for humans, computers work best with numbers.

Although there is indeed a performance hit when using strings, developers also (mainly?) use integers because it requires more complex code to handle text-strings.

In the end, on today's hardware, it's a matter of preference I guess. I prefer integers over strings for something like that.

Jeroen

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Wednesday 13 March, 14:21
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