Re: Another clueless wikipedia article

Simon G Best wrote:
> > It may be sufficient just to change that
> > first sentence so it gets the reference right, and perhaps remove the
> > bit about "all real computers", I really think that bit is problematic.
> > Because it does imply that all real computers are FSMs and not TMs. [...]
>
> No. That may be what you're (incorrectly) inferring from it, but it's
> not what it's saying or implying.
>
> :-(

Hmm, Ben seemed to draw the same thing as I did, and he even agreed to
that case (saying that physical computers cannot implement countable
infinity). That's why I now think it is misleading. It is an ambiguous
expression there.

Anyway, I agree with your view that a real computer can be
both an FSM and a TM, but I don't think that a reader will
easily notice that unless he already knows it. Most likely, he
will think that TMs are not about desktop computers!

Regards,

--
Eray

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