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** Christmas tree fractals (first seen in 2x4)
** Christmas tree fractals (first seen in 2x4)
* Spaghetti
* Spaghetti
* Cellular automata
* Cellular automata (first seen in 5x2 and 3x3)


By the uncomputability of the Busy Beaver function, it is reasonable to believe that there can never be a complete classification of behaviors of Turing machines for arbitrarily high numbers of states.
By the uncomputability of the Busy Beaver function, it is reasonable to believe that there can never be a complete classification of behaviors of Turing machines for arbitrarily high numbers of states.

Revision as of 22:57, 3 November 2024

(Very rough sketches and outlines)

Classification

  • Cyclers
  • Translated cyclers
  • Bouncers
  • Bells
    • Exponential bells (first seen[1] in 3x2)
    • Cubic bells (first seen in 3x2)
    • Quartic bells (first seen in 5x2)
    • etc...
  • Counters
    • Regular
    • Irregular
    • Exponential/tetration...
  • Hybrid (counter-counter, bouncer-counter)
  • Fractals
    • Cube-like fractals (first seen in 4x2)
    • Christmas tree fractals (first seen in 2x4)
  • Spaghetti
  • Cellular automata (first seen in 5x2 and 3x3)

By the uncomputability of the Busy Beaver function, it is reasonable to believe that there can never be a complete classification of behaviors of Turing machines for arbitrarily high numbers of states.

  1. By "first seen" I mean either minimal in number of states or minimal in number of symbols