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A spooky way to calculate prime numbers

Written on 31.10.2026 12:51 by Ingmar Weber

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In case you liked the bits about Turing machines, registers, and all that, you might appreciate FRACTRAN:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuaVFnj4SWY

You can actually design a computer that uses nothing but fractions, such as 35/11 for calculations.

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