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   From: user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   On 1/17/26 4:17 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:   
   > On 16/01/2026 23:21, Richard Damon wrote:   
   >> the only "operations" that a turing machine does is write a specified   
   >> value to the tape, move the tape, and change state.   
   >   
   > And arbitrarily long sequences of those. It says so in his 1936 paper.   
   >   
      
   turing was like: "yeah, it's supposed to be only one operation per state   
   transition... but that's inefficient to write, including several is   
   equivalent, so we're doing that!"   
      
   LOL, i can imagine rick telling off turing for not conforming to mUh   
   dEfInITiOnS...   
      
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