Warp wrote:
>   A loop of memory tape does not, in fact, provide an unbounded amount
> of memory. It provides a finite, fixed amount of memory, hence very
> definitely not unbounded.
> 

I think he was comparing it to an "unbounded space", which means a space 
without edges. It's possible to have an unbounded finite space, like the 
surface of a sphere.  But that's not what it means in Turing machine 
conversations, where the tape is clearly linear.

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