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I really wish he hadn't used literal zero and one arabic numerals (along with blank) as his tape symbols.

dash and pipe would have been much more evocative of 1-bit information, rather than persisting with this misleading "ones and zeroes" bullshit that has infected popular culture and tends to totally obscure the underlying concept.




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