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we can strengthen this result slightly by observing that @{text m} is at most
2 in the output tape. This observation allows one to construct a UTM that works
entirely on the left-tape by composing it with a machine that drags the tape
- two cells to the right. A corolary is that one-sided Turing machines (where the
- tape only extends to the right) are as powerful as our two-sided Turing machines.
+ two cells to the right. A corollary is that one-sided Turing machines (where the
+ tape only extends to the right) are computationally as powerful as our two-sided
+ Turing machines. So our undecidability proof for the halting problem extends
+ also to one-sided Turing machines, which is needed for example in order to
+ formalise the undecidability of Wang's tiling problem \cite{Robinson71}.
- While formalising the chapter about universal Turing machines in \cite{Boolos87}
+ While formalising the chapter about universal Turing machines in \cite{Boolos87},
we noticed that they use their definition about what function Turing machines
calculate. They write in Chapter 3 \cite[Page 32]{Boolos87}:
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