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  • Re: The primary first principle of all Turing Machine based computation

    From Richard Heathfield@rjh@cpax.org.uk to comp.theory on Mon Jan 26 02:57:52 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 19/12/2025 21:45, Andr|- G. Isaak wrote:
    On 2025-12-18 16:25, olcott wrote:

    <snip>

    In C: Null terminated sequence of ASCII digits.
    In Turing machines space delimited sequence of binary digits.

    Nowhere does the definition of Turing Machine mention space
    delimited sequences of binary digits.

    And nowhere does the normative definition of C mention ASCII. (It
    is mentioned in passing in a couple of footnotes, but footnotes
    are non-normative.)
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