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14 Post author: Alex_Altair 13 June 2012 09:49PM

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Comment author: asr 14 June 2012 04:27:50AM 1 point [-]

I suspect that Pentashagon is not using "algorithm" as a synonym for "Turing machine" -- I've often seen the word used to mean a deterministic computation that always halts.