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Two-State, Three-Symbol Turing Machine is Universal

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This entry was posted on 10/24/2007 11:47 AM and is filed under Computation and Logic.

Wolfram's contest for proving (or disproving) whether a particular 2-state, 3-symbol (or color) Turing Machine has been won by a 20-year old engineering student from the UK.

Link to write-up in Nature here.

 

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