The Universal Machine

Alan Turing answered a question about the limits of mathematical proof by describing the simplest possible machine — a tape, a head and a table of rules — and in doing so specified every computer since. Three years later he was at Bletchley Park attacking a cipher with 1.59 × 10²⁰ settings. Step his machine, press the keys of an Enigma, and run the Bombe.

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