A Piece of the Pi: mathematics explained

A Piece of the Pi: mathematics explained

How to build a computer using origami

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Richard Green
Sep 20, 2023
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Flat origami is the folding of flat paper in such a way that the finished object lies in a plane. In their recent paper Flat origami is Turing Complete, Thomas C. Hull and Inna Zakharevich prove that it is possible to view flat origami as a Turing complete computational device. This means that, in principle, it is possible to use flat origami to compute…

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