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by Ar-Curunir 1738 days ago
Mechanical computers approximate Turing Machines, just like NP approximates RE: instead of asking “does this program halt?”, we ask “does this program halt in N steps?”.

If N is sufficiently (polynomially) large, the two are approximately equal.

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> Mechanical computers approximate Turing Machines

Yup, so do humans with paper and pencil.