On Wed, 06 May 2009 17:01:06 -0700, VK3BFA wrote:

On May 7, 9:08 am, Tim Williams wrote:
On May 6, 3:29 pm, James Arthur wrote:

Not that I need such precision. I've got the CNC bug[1], and I'm
thinking of ways to make things nice. Ways to make nice ways, if you
will.

[1] A CNC mill and a lathe, and the desire to make more of the same.

The lathe and mill are both Turing-complete machine tools, so that's no
problem. :-)

Crossposting to RCM, which I recall had someone madly interested in
something like "Godel's Theorem for Machinists"!

Tim

Well, if their true Turing machines, let them decide what material they
want to use.......isnt that the whole point of the Turing Test?.......

Different thing. Turing showed that after a certain level of
completeness, any machine could simulate any other machine (barring such
minor difficulties as execution time and storage space -- he was a
mathematician). So a computer (or computing language) that is Turing
complete can emulate any other computer (or translate into any other
language).

A "Turing complete" machine tool would presumably be one that can do all
the operations of any other machine.

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