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IMHO as long as it has states, and it actually accepts some input while rejecting others, it is a computer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_computation h
by v-yadli 13y ago
IMHO as long as it has states, and it actually accepts some input while rejecting others, it is a computer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_computation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_computation
EDIT: Thus a printer IS a computer, not for the procedural operations, but for that you can feed in some illegal input through the interface(no matter serial, peripheral or USB), and it will either send you back some complaint, or disconnect from you, or burn itself down.
- timdiggerm 13y agoBut can you feed this pinoccoscribe illegal input?
- pliny 13y agoProbably not, since the correct response to illegal input is to never arrive at a halting state, and putting aside mechanical considerations, it doesn't seem like the boy is supposed to loop over anything in such a way that would allow it (in intention, not in practice) never to halt.
- v-yadli 13y agoNot 'but' but 'and' right?