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by zarzavat 670 days ago
Turing complete just means you can simulate a Turing machine.

A Turing machine is a mathematical model of a computer, it’s not a real computer.

Real computers can do things that Turing machines can’t do, e.g. generating random numbers[0], interfacing with hardware, etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDRAND