Coding systems are political (was Exended ASCII and code pages)

Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun May 29 04:54:02 EDT 2016


Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> And I thought that the Turing model was based on binary:

It's not based on any particular encoding. When you define a
Turing machine, you can pick any set of symbols you want for
your alphabet. The model doesn't specify how they're
represented.

-- 
Greg



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