• FRACTRAN is a Turing-complete esoteric programming language invented by the mathematician John Conway. A FRACTRAN program is an ordered list of positive...
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  • eggs" and "111 cups oil" would produce "a lot of food for one person." A FRACTRAN program is an ordered list of positive fractions together with an initial...
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  • nor branches. Cryptoleq encryption is based on Paillier cryptosystem. FRACTRAN Minimal axioms for Boolean algebra Register machine Turing tarpit Reduced...
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    undecidable. Related to that, he developed the esoteric programming language FRACTRAN. While lecturing on the Collatz conjecture, Terence Tao (who was taught...
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    also refers to negative fractions. Cross multiplication 0.999... Multiple FRACTRAN Some typographers such as Bringhurst mistakenly distinguish the slash ⟨/⟩...
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  • equal to zero, are formalized in an esoteric programming language called FRACTRAN. Collatz and related conjectures are often used when studying computation...
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