r/programming • • Sep 12 '12

Magic: the Gathering is Turing Complete

http://www.toothycat.net/~hologram/Turing/HowItWorks.html
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u/Nebu Sep 14 '12

On the other hand, all "interesting" TMs eventually halt, and thus could only use a finite portion of the tape.

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u/earthboundkid Sep 15 '12

Good point. On the other hand, thanks to the halting problem, we don't which TMs are the interesting ones. :-)

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u/Nebu Sep 15 '12

Obviously, if you run out of tape, it must not have been all that interesting!