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Fractran: Computer architecture based on the multiplication of fractions
y on the multiplication of fractions. A prime is a number that can only be divided by itself one, since these numbers can't be divided, they can considered the DNA of other numbers.
Typical Fractran Programmer AccumulatorRegistersr2r3r5r76111812100842154022501234The Accumulator is a single number whose prime factorization holds the value of registers(2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, ..). While Fractran is commonly reduced to just another opaque esoteric language, portraying it as such is doing a disservice to the relatively simple idea at its core and to the researchers who might otherwise benefit by venturing deeper into a relatively unexplored field of computation. Fractran operators are reversible, meaning that some programs can be run backward, back to its original state.
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