Magic: the Gathering Is Turing Complete

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Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @09:07PM from the nerd-crossover dept.

TsukiKage writes "A 50-card M:tG combo for four players is demonstrated that is used to construct a simple Turing machine, performing arbitrary computations just by following the rules of Magic and card text thereafter."

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Such vitriol for M:TG in these early comments (Score:5, Insightful)

by Gideon Wells ( 1412675 ) writes: on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @09:33PM (#41307833)

Like we /.ers are to talk about nerds or geekiness. Half of us would install a toaster in our cars just so we could have a toaster to install linux on while stuck in traffic. Yeesh.

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Amazing (Score:5, Insightful)

by DJ Jones ( 997846 ) writes: on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @09:34PM (#41307837) Homepage

Now this is truly "News for Nerds"

Speaking of, what the hell happened to the motto? When did that happen?

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