XPost: comp.theory, sci.math   
   From: tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk   
      
   On 21/12/2025 17:38, Richard Damon wrote:   
   > While a Turing Machine instruction works on a tape with a finite string   
   > on it, its "transformation" instructions are VERY limited, being write a   
   > new value to the selected cell and move the tape one step in a specified   
   > direction.   
      
   No I double checked Turing's 1936 paper. The transformation rule from   
   any state can be any finite sequence of steps derived from such atoms.   
      
      
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