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From: Richard Damon <richard@damon-family.org>
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Subject: Re: H(D,D) cannot even be asked about the behavior of D(D) V2
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 21:12:50 -0400
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On 6/16/24 8:44 PM, André G. Isaak wrote:
> On 2024-06-16 17:26, Richard Damon wrote:
> 
>> Actually, if I remember right, he was asked to write a Turing Machine, 
>> and was shown an on-line Turing Emulator, but he didn't like how it 
>> worked, (it didn't understand a "full ASCII" tape)
> 
> It was more absurd than that. He wanted to use unicode (or UTF-16 as he 
> put it) as his alphabet.
> 
> André
> 

That sounds right. Maybe wanted to be able to try to write the question 
on the tape, and wants all the logical symbols.

Of course, machines with a big symbol set tend to have very big state 
machines.