quantum Computing

Perry E. Metzger perry at imsi.com
Wed May 18 11:06:22 PDT 1994



Rick Busdiecker says:
>     From: m5 at vail.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
>     
>     While we're being picky, I'll point out that (unless I'm wrong of
>     course) it's not really an NFA, but a non-deterministic Turing
>     machine (an "NTM"?) that's the automaton at issue here.
> 
> No, NFA is acceptable and correct, it's Non-determinisic Finite
> Automaton.  A non-deterministic Turing machine is a perfectly
> reasonable example, however.

A turing machine is not a finite automaton -- it has an infinite tape.

Perry






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