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One of the things about Turing-completeness is that it is very easy to become accidentally Turing-complete, since the conditions you need for completeness are very weak. (Famously, C++ template instantiation is unintentionally Turing-complete).

Z3 is an example of an accidentally Turing-complete machine.

With the important exception of "infinite tape". That always gets forgotten.

Z3 is an example of an accidentally Turing-complete machine.

Kind of easy to let that pass though, given the "imitation game" wasn't even introduced by Turing until way after the Z3 machine was completed.

The imitation game (aka Turing test) has nothing to do with Turing completeness.

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