On 4/6/2012 8:14, Kevin Wampler wrote:
> On 4/5/2012 7:56 PM, Darren New wrote:
>> Here's an interesting thought:
>>
>> There is no Turing machine capable of translating a Turing machine
>> program into an input tape for a Universal Turing Machine.
>>
>
> Could you be more specific? There's multiple ways to interpret what you mean
> and some of these interpretations are true while others are false.

A turing machine program is a tuple, one element of which is a set of 
tuples. Turing machines don't work with sets of tuples. I.e., exactly what 
Andrew said.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Oh no! We're out of code juice!"
   "Don't panic. There's beans and filters
    in the cabinet."

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