LaTeX is turing complete!

Posted by Steven Clontz on December 15, 2012

So, I knew LaTeX was the best mathematical markup out there, but I didn’t realize it was Turing complete. Here’s an article that shows how to compute the Fibonacci sequence:

http://blog.scribtex.com/latex-is-turing-complete-51805

Makes me wonder where I can save myself some time by having LaTeX do certain computations for me in my paper rather than doing them myself? I suppose this would likely negatively affect compile time, however.

-SXC