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Re:Accidentally Turing-Complete by a1369209993 on Friday April 24, 2020 @08:23PM (#22974427)
That is clearly a demonstration of Turing completeness, but it's a demonstration of Turing completeness of HTML5 + CSS3 + copying from output back to input (the same as eg string rewriting systems) and that could stand to be stated more clearly.
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Re:Accidentally Turing-Complete by Dylan16807 on Friday April 24, 2020 @08:51PM (#22974569)
Technically yes, but only when it's paired with the understanding that arithmetic plus copying the output back to input is Turing complete. HTML5+CSS is only supplying the arithmetic half of the equation.
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