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How to program my universal Turing machine in LISP

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Exploring RANDOMNESS

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Okay, so now we’ve got a fairly simple version of LISP. Its interpreter is only three hundred lines of Mathematica code, and it’s less than a thousand lines C and Java. So let’s use it!

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Chaitin, G.J. (2001). How to program my universal Turing machine in LISP. In: Exploring RANDOMNESS. Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0307-3_3

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