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Re:Baba Is Turing Complete: A Sketch of a Proof by empath75 on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @07:52AM (#19918474)
Every time someone says something like minesweeper or PowerPoint is turing complete, some pedant will chime in that it isn’t, because it doesn’t have an infinite board/slides/whatever.
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Re:Baba Is Turing Complete: A Sketch of a Proof by barbecue_sauce on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @02:41PM (#19922415)
But with that line of reasoning, would there be anything that is actually turing complete?
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Re:Baba Is Turing Complete: A Sketch of a Proof by mcphage on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @03:27PM (#19922840)
Just mathematical constructs.
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