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FRACTRAN

FRACTRAN is a Turing-complete esoteric programming language invented by the mathematician John Conway. A FRACTRAN program is an ordered list of positive fractions together with an initial positive integer input n. The program is run by updating the integer n as follows:

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FRACTRAN → Bottom Up, Building Fizzbuzz, Chris Lomont, Eric, Esolang, Euler Problem, John Conway, Lecture, MathWorld, Prime Number Pathology, Prime Number PathologyFRACTRAN, Ridiculous Logical Language, Ruby, Universal FRACTRAN Interpreter, Weisstein
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