FRACTRAN

[stigant]

This is simultaneously the most useless and the coolest thing I've learned in (at least) the last year.

FRACTRAN is a ridiculously esoteric programming language.  But it's Turring complete.  It's almost impossible to write anything but the simplest programs in it, but theoretically, you can write a program to compute any quantity that you could

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[anonymous]

Congrats on your FRACTRAN program :) I just tested it in my Python interpreter and it worked fine. I wrote a Fibonacci numbers generator before deciding it would be a better idea if I did something better with my time :p

Here: http://yetanotherlifeform.com/2012/02/26/fractran/

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