Talk:ETC

Purpose of C is unclear. Seems to be important... Neon (talk) 16:59, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

i dont think that this is Turing-complete since a single register machine needs to be able check if a number is divisible by a constant to actually be TC Dragoneater67mobile (talk) 17:49, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

That seems to be the purpose of the C command (here, the length of the program is the constant in question). I don't know if it's enough, though. –PkmnQ (talk) 00:12, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

but it just cant check if its divisible by a constant?? dragon eater SIX SEVEN 07:47, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

I misread the documentation, but I thought the C command acted something like index = counter % len(program), which would've allowed for a divisibility check. –PkmnQ (talk) 08:05, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

I think counter %= len(program) makes this a finite state machine, since it becomes impossible to store and infinite amount of data. –PkmnQ (talk) 08:05, 16 February 2026 (UTC)