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A Turing machine is a theoretical computing machine that serves as an idealized model for mathematical calculation.

Turing machine is a college-level concept that would be first encountered in a theory of computation course.

Prerequisites

Algorithm: An algorithm is a specific set of instructions for carrying out a procedure or solving a problem, usually with the requirement that the procedure terminate at some point.
Recurrence Relation: A recurrence relation is a mathematical relationship expressing the members of a sequence as some combination of their predecessors.

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