Turing machine
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Named after English mathematician, logician, and cryptographer Alan Turing (1912–1954), who introduced the concept in 1936 to give a mathematically precise definition of computability.
Noun
[edit]Turing machine (plural Turing machines)
- (computing theory) An abstract computing machine that has a finite number of possible internal states and operates on an infinite memory tape by first reading a symbol from a cell in the tape, and then, deterministically, based on that symbol and the machine’s state, writing a symbol in that cell, moving to a neighboring cell, and/or changing state.
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[edit]abstract machine
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[edit]- Turing machine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia