The Busy Beaver Problem
A NEW MILLENNIUM ATTACK
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Busy Beaver in a Nut Shell
Consider a binary alphabet Turing Machine
which is given an infinite, blank tape as input. If this machine
halts, we define its productivity as the number of 1's left on the
tape after the machine is run to completion. If it does not halt,
the machine is given a productivity value of zero. Now consider
all of the binary alphabet Turing Machines that have n
states. The machine in this set which has the highest productivity
is called a Busy Beaver, and its productivity is the result of the
Busy Beaver function BB(n). blah
Busy Beaver Research Team
Bram van Heuveln
Selmer Bringsjord Boleslaw Szymanski Carlos Varela Kyle Ross Owen Kellett Shailesh Kelkar |