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Chapter 5: Two Dimensions and Beyond

Section 3: Turing Machines


2D mobile automata

Mobile automata can be generalized just like Turing machines. Even in the simplest case, however, with only four neighbors involved there are already (4k)k5

\!\(\*SuperscriptBox[\((4k)\),\(\!\(\*SuperscriptBox[\(k\),\(5\)]\)\)]\) possible rules, or nearly 1029 even for k = 2
k = 2
.



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From Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science [citation]