In 2007, Alex Smith won a 25,000-dollar prize for showing that a system denoted (2, 3) has a “weak” form of this property. Alan Perlis coined a term referring to systems with this property that are nonetheless not very useful as “tarpits.” In 2004, Matthew Cook demonstrated that Rule 110 has this property, thus showing elementary cellular automata can have it. In 2019, Alex Churchill showed that the game Magic: the Gathering has this property. Tom Wildenhain once jokingly demonstrated that Microsoft PowerPoint does in fact have this property. Given infinite memory, most programming languages, like Python and Java, have this property. A system that can compute any computable function has, for 10 points, what property of systems that are equivalent to a head that reads and writes symbols on an infinite tape? ■END■
| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 62.50 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 11 | 82% | 0% | 18% | 70.56 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 80.60 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 40% | 92.33 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 82.67 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 13% | 70.71 |
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| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | Maryland A | 45 | 10 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Toronto D | 49 | 10 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State | UCSD C | 52 | 10 |
| Jake Meltzer | CWRU A | CWRU B | 54 | 10 |
| Luke Robitaille | MIT | Harvard A | 56 | 10 |
| Oliver West | Cambridge C | Edinburgh B | 57 | -5 |
| Colin Veevers | Ottawa | Toronto C | 60 | 10 |
| Jake Markus | Dartmouth B | Harvard B | 60 | -5 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA A | UCLA B | 62 | 10 |
| Fish Tsai | UCSD A | UCSD B | 62 | 10 |
| Dennis Yang | Michigan B | Michigan C | 62 | 10 |
| Zoë McGuire | Oxford B | Imperial A | 71 | 10 |
| Aiden Bang | Johns Hopkins B | Columbia A | 71 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham | Cambridge B | 71 | 10 |
| Brandon Weiss | Columbia C | NYU C | 71 | 10 |
| Michael Du | Waterloo A | Brock | 71 | 10 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | LSE | 73 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UC Santa Barbara | UC Irvine | 74 | 10 |
| Imran Abdul Rahman | UCL | City St. George's | 74 | 10 |
| Ian Parsons | Maryland C | NYU A | 74 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU B | Rutgers B | 74 | 10 |
| Athan Juritsch | Toronto G | Queen's | 74 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto E | Toronto Metropolitan | 74 | 10 |
| Joey Sun | Toronto B | Western B | 74 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha Raj | Ohio State B | Ohio State C | 74 | 10 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Bowdoin B | 74 | -5 |
| Artem Borisov | Bristol | Imperial C | 74 | 10 |
| Eric Morshed | Johns Hopkins A | Swarthmore | 74 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | UBC A | Waterloo B | 74 | 10 |
| Sriram Susarla | UBC B | McMaster B | 74 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Western A | 78 | -5 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Pittsburgh | 80 | 10 |
| Ella Tang | McGill B | Toronto F | 85 | 10 |
| Aiden Dartley | Rutgers A | Maryland B | 86 | 10 |
| Dylan Steptoe | Guelph | Western C | 88 | -5 |
| Nathaniel Martin | Brandeis B | Southern Connecticut State | 88 | 10 |
| Dillon George | Catholic | Vassar | 92 | -5 |
| Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Michigan State | 127 | -5 |
| Andrew Harms | Michigan State | Ohio State A | 133 | 10 |
| Chris Dech | Brandeis A | Bowdoin A | 133 | 0 |
| Neiman Mocombe | Bowdoin A | Brandeis A | 133 | 0 |
| Max Neal | Harvard B | Dartmouth B | 133 | 10 |
| Ted Harrison | Edinburgh B | Cambridge C | 133 | 10 |
| Ezra Siegartel | Vassar | Catholic | 133 | 0 |
| Nicholas Kwan | Western A | McMaster A | 133 | 0 |