Practice What It Means (5.1) - Turing Machines and Computability - Theory of Computation
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Question 1 Easy

Define a Turing Machine in your own words.

💡 Hint: Think about the components: tape, states, and rules.

Question 2 Easy

What does the Church-Turing Hypothesis state?

💡 Hint: Consider how algorithms relate to Turing Machines.

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Question 1

What is a Turing Machine?

💡 Hint: Think about its defining features like infinite memory and symbolic operations.

Question 2

The Church-Turing Hypothesis suggests that all algorithms can be computed by which model?

Finite Automata
Turing Machines
Pushdown Automata

💡 Hint: Consider what is considered a computational model.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Construct a Turing Machine that recognizes the language of palindromes over the binary alphabet {0, 1}.

💡 Hint: Consider how the TM can keep track of each matching character pair as it progresses.

Challenge 2 Hard

Explain why the Halting Problem is undecidable and what implications it has for practical computing.

💡 Hint: Use the contradiction approach to clarify why assuming the opposite leads to a paradox.

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