What do we mean by a program or an algorithm? A general way of capturing how machines would work - You have a way of writing down information in a coded form --> Tape as long as needed, divided into squares which are 1 or 0 or blank - Machine looks at the tape on square at a time and executes a program accordingly. The machine leaves the answer on the tape after completing it's process. > Modern computers manipulate strings of 1s and 0s to solve problems Can a quantum computer do more than a turing machine can? ![[Pasted image 20210920183219.png]]