Re: Poll: Are PCs Turing Machines?

From: Luis A. Rodriguez (luiroto_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/04/04 

Date: 4 Dec 2004 06:59:06 -0800

examachine@gmail.com (Eray Ozkural exa) wrote in message news:<320e992a.0412030247.375f672a@posting.google.com>...
> "Mark Nudelman" <markn@greenwoodsoftware.com> wrote in message news:<BCKrd.600129$mD.87873@attbi_s02>...
> > Eray Ozkural exa wrote:

> > A TM can perform a calculation that requires 10^1000 storage cells, but no
> > PC or any other physical computer could do that.
 
  Absurd!! This is the same wrong concept that many people has of what
a TM is.
  The TM dont'n "perform calculations", is the mathematician who
decides what a TM will do if it receives the input X = 10^10000, and
this can be easily simulated by a PC that can handle powers and
logarithms.
But if the process is chaotic,no mathematician, no TM , nobody can
calculate the result.
Ludovicus