Learn about what a Turing complete programming language is and why it’s more difficult to make a program Turing incomplete. Bitcoin is Turing incomplete whereas Ethereum is Turing complete.
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Chapters
0:00 The life of Allen Turing
0:48 Could you please explain in plain English what is meant by a computer program being or not being Turing complete
1:49 Important characteristics of Turing complete programs
2:29 Turing incomplete programs
3:18 Turing complete systems, while they can express any possible program and are very flexible, we never know if they are going to finish running
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