What does the expression "Turing Complete" mean? Can you give a simple explanation, without going into too many theoretical details?

Mar 15, 2017 · I see that most definitions of what it is to be Turing-complete are tautological to a degree. For example if you Google "what does being Turing complete mean", you get: A computer is Turing …

Oct 10, 2008 · A Turing machine is Turing-complete, but that doesn't mean you should want to use one for production code. Trying to do anything non-trivial with templates is in my experience messy, ugly …

It turns out that SQL can be Turing Complete even without a true 'scripting' extension such as PL/SQL or PSM (which are designed to be true programming languages, so that's kinda cheating). In this set of …

Aug 18, 2023 · That's not Turing completeness. Turing completeness is any machine that can emulate a Universal Turing Machine. With the exception of having infinite memory (a theoretical Universal …

Dec 18, 2016 · Why would any programmer care? it's not as if turing-completeness alone has any practical relevance for the usability of a programming language.

While reading some papers about the Turing completeness of recurrent neural nets (for example: Turing computability with neural nets, Hava T. Siegelmann and Eduardo D. Sontag, 1991), I got the feel...

Feb 5, 2011 · This is DeMorgan's Law, basically. However, this is not sufficient for Turing completeness. For that you also need random (or reducably equivalent) access (theoretically) infinite memory. Odds …

Aug 2, 2020 · Is C++ a turing complete language? Obviously that would be the case, but how is it proven practically? Is there a minimally reproducible example that shows that this is the case?

So one way to prove that a system is Turing complete is to emulate a universal Turing machine. The game of life for example was proven to be Turing complete by emulating a universal Turing machine.