Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> And I thought that the Turing model was based on binary: > > It's not based on any particular encoding. When you define a > Turing machine, you can pick any set of symbols you want for > your alphabet. The model doesn't specify how they're > represented.
A Turing machine is a model of a mathematician: you have a state machine, an unlimited supply of blank sheets of paper, a pencil and an eraser. The model was created to prove or disprove the mathematicians' conviction that they could solve any given well-formed mathematical problem. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
