Talk:State space

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There is a "state space" in controls. I'm fixing my links to says State space (controls), but it's not clear to me that this should not be moved to a similarly title page and a disambiguation page set up here. -rs2 06:15, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

There is also an, as of the time or writing,broken link to State space (physics), which I suspect to be the same sense as the control engineering one. I think that disambiguation is definitely needed. The current way in which this is done, with a See Also section, is not the correct way even when the primary reference isn't an explicit disambiguation page. David Woolley 10:46, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Presently, Wikipedia represents the idea of a "state-space" to vary between disciplines. I belive that this is inaccurate. A "state" is simply a description of a real object. A "state-space" is a set of mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive states. This particular "state-space" description confuses the notion of a "state-machine" with the notion of a "state-space." In particular, the concept that is described is that of a state-machine.--Terry Oldberg (talk) 16:54, 29 May 2008 (UTC)