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Procedures equivalent to TM's

A procedure is equivalent to a TM, and all TM's can be encoded as finite binary strings [Hopcroft, Section 8.3]. This means that the set of TM's encoded in binary is a subset of the integers encoded in binary (not all binary integers code for a TM). For this reason, the members of the set of integers can be put in a one-to-one correspondence with the members of the set of TMs (procedures).



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