Re: Logopolis

c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

This was the last "Dr. Who" episode for Who4, Tom Baker,
and the beginning for Peter Davison, the 5th 'Doctor'.
 
However the PREMISE was very interesting - some aliens
with extreme math abilities had constructed a math so
all-encompassing that it could create/change physical
reality just by being calculated.

I prefer the pre-80s Dr Who more myself. Maybe not so many
telekinetic mathematicians, but more on-topic there were
lots of crazed AI computer systems. One of the (B/W) 1960s
ones had a little hacking where one of The Doctor's
companions crashed a computerised receptionist with a verbal
code injection attack that put it in an endless loop.

The Doctor tried a similar thing in a Jon Pertwee story
"The Green Death", but there he didn't express an actual
routine in a programming language like the earlier time.

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