Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!ucsd!nosc!humu!uhccux!lee From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: What's a TM? Message-ID: <2202@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Date: 6 Aug 88 15:25:20 GMT References: <1164@garth.UUCP> Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 13 From article <1164@garth.UUCP>, by smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan): " " > But it's guaranteed " >that any non-deterministic TM can be simulated by a normal TM. The " >normal TM may solve the problem much more slowly, but the power is the " >same. " " I'm not so sure, but I don't feel like looking it up. I suspect a Any non-deterministic finite automaton can be simulated by a deterministic one... Could we have a reference for the case of TMs? Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu