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Turing machines can theoretically compute anything

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Your incredibly expensive laptop is essentially just a theoretical thought experiment from the nineteen-thirties. Alan Turing proved that a hypothetical machine reading and writing symbols on an infinite strip of tape can solve any computable sequence. Every modern digital application is just a vastly over-engineered version of this imaginary infinite tape.

Turing machines can theoretically compute anything
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