Formal Definition
A multitape Turing machine can be formally defined as a 6-tuple, where
- is a finite set of states
- is a finite set of symbols called the tape alphabet
- is the initial state
- is the set of final or accepting states.
- is a relation on states and symbols called the transition relation.
where
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