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Re:How the Square Root of 2 Became a Number by hifromwork on Saturday June 22, 2024 @08:30AM (#40758633)
>I'd like to understand - Can you explain this? It seems like it would be easy to have a Turing machines that uses the other two Turing machines, adding one digit at a time until it finds a difference.

I assume it runs into problems when you try to check if 2 > 2.

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Re:How the Square Root of 2 Became a Number by xscott on Saturday June 22, 2024 @10:27AM (#40759360)
It's very funny how that's a really good example and made it click instantly. Thank you.
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