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HN has discussed FRACTRAN before, of course: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=fractran https://hn.algolia.com/?q=fractran If this post has anything new to contribute,
by braythwayt 6y ago
HN has discussed FRACTRAN before, of course: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=fractran https://hn.algolia.com/?q=fractran
If this post has anything new to contribute, it will be the discussion around Minsky Machines, a sketch of Conway's own interest in using POLYGAME to derive a proof about the undecidability of arbitrary Collatz problems, and as usual with my posts, a series of JavaScript implementations.
- dang 6y agoSurprisingly little—not many comments but they're pretty good and https://malisper.me/building-fizzbuzz-fractran-bottom/ https://malisper.me/building-fizzbuzz-fractran-bottom/ was a good article. 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14202367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14202367 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11894141 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11894141 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3119937 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3119937