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Since tape machines or one tape Turing machines are not very appropriate for practical programming of word functions, in this chapter we introduce a generalization of the register machines from numbers to words, the stack machines. Stack machines, especially the generalized stack machines, are a very useful and natural tool for formulating algorithms which operate on words. We shall prove that the stack machine computable word functions are exactly the (tape) computable word functions.
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Weihrauch, K. (1987). Stack Machines. In: Computability. EATCS Monographs on Theoretical Computer Science, vol 9. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69965-8_7
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