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On TAE Machines and Their Computational Power

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Trail-And-Error machines have been proposed by Hintikka and Mutanen as an alternative formulation of the notion of (mechanical) computation. These machines extend the capabilities of the Turing machine and widen the theory of computation.

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I would like to thank Christos K.K. Loverdos for his help and suggestions. Also, I would like to thank the anonymous reviewer for his comments.

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Syropoulos, A. On TAE Machines and Their Computational Power. Log. Univers. 13, 165–170 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11787-018-0196-5

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