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  2. Automata theory - Wikipedia

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    Such a machine is called queue machine and is Turing-complete. Tape memory: The inputs and outputs of automata are often described as input and output tapes. Some machines have additional working tapes, including the Turing machine, linear bounded automaton, and log-space transducer. Transition function

  3. Turing machine - Wikipedia

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    Classes of automata. (Clicking on each layer gets an article on that subject) A Turing machine is a mathematical model of computation describing an abstract machine [ 1 ] that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules. [ 2 ] Despite the model's simplicity, it is capable of implementing any computer algorithm.

  4. Langton's ant - Wikipedia

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    A red pixel shows the ant's location. Langton's ant is a two-dimensional Turing machine with a very simple set of rules but complex emergent behavior. It was invented by Chris Langton in 1986 and runs on a square lattice of black and white cells. [1] The idea has been generalized in several different ways, such as turmites which add more colors ...

  5. Busy beaver - Wikipedia

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    An nth busy beaver, BB-n or simply "busy beaver" is a Turing machine that wins the n -state busy beaver game. [ 5 ] Depending on definition, it either attains the highest score, or runs for the longest time, among all other possible n -state competing Turing machines.

  6. Universal Turing machine - Wikipedia

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    For example, the rules might convert (2,2A,0) to (2,1,0) and move the head left. Thus in this example, the machine acts like a 3-colour Turing machine with internal states A and B (represented by no letter). The case for a 2-headed Turing machine is very similar. Thus a 2-headed Turing machine can be Universal with 6 colours.

  7. Automatic Computing Engine - Wikipedia

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    The Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) was a British early electronic serial stored-program computer design by Alan Turing. Turing completed the ambitious design in late 1945, having had experience in the years prior with the secret Colossus computer at Bletchley Park. The ACE was not built, but a smaller version, the Pilot ACE, was constructed ...

  8. Quantum Turing machine - Wikipedia

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    Turing machines. A quantum Turing machine (QTM) or universal quantum computer is an abstract machine used to model the effects of a quantum computer. It provides a simple model that captures all of the power of quantum computation—that is, any quantum algorithm can be expressed formally as a particular quantum Turing machine.

  9. Post–Turing machine - Wikipedia

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    A Post–Turing machine[ 1 ] is a "program formulation" of a type of Turing machine, comprising a variant of Emil Post 's Turing-equivalent model of computation. Post's model and Turing's model, though very similar to one another, were developed independently. Turing's paper was received for publication in May 1936, followed by Post's in October.