Friday, February 8, 2008

More on Fractal Turing Machines

Well, here's more on fractal turing machines. What I am thinking is that you can go both up and down the number of symbols being analyzed. Thus you could look at two symbols at the same time, four symbols at the same time .... Or you could look at 1/2 a symbol... As well as being able to advance fractional amounts. If you look at a lot of symbols at the same time, you would need some function to provide a final value, like, min, max, average, etc. What if you have millions of symbols, what do you do? The answer is to choose a certain number of symbols to represent the collection of symbols, or what you might call a combinatoric turing machine.

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