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 |
| Jake Markus | Dartmouth B | Harvard B | 60 | -5 |
| Colin Veevers | Ottawa | Toronto C | 60 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA A | UCLA B | 62 | 10 |
| Dennis Yang | Michigan B | Michigan C | 62 | 10 |
| Fish Tsai | UCSD A | UCSD B | 62 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham | Cambridge B | 71 | 10 |
| Michael Du | Waterloo A | Brock | 71 | 10 |
| Zoë McGuire | Oxford B | Imperial A | 71 | 10 |
| Brandon Weiss | Columbia C | NYU C | 71 | 10 |
| Aiden Bang | Johns Hopkins B | Columbia A | 71 | 10 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | LSE | 73 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UC Santa Barbara | UC Irvine | 74 | 10 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Bowdoin B | 74 | -5 |
| Artem Borisov | Bristol | Imperial C | 74 | 10 |
| Joey Sun | Toronto B | Western B | 74 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha Raj | Ohio State B | Ohio State C | 74 | 10 |
| Athan Juritsch | Toronto G | Queen's | 74 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto E | Toronto Metropolitan | 74 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | UBC A | Waterloo B | 74 | 10 |
| Sriram Susarla | UBC B | McMaster B | 74 | 10 |
| Imran Abdul Rahman | UCL | City St. George's | 74 | 10 |
| Eric Morshed | Johns Hopkins A | Swarthmore | 74 | 10 |
| Ian Parsons | Maryland C | NYU A | 74 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU B | Rutgers 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 |
| Ted Harrison | Edinburgh B | Cambridge C | 133 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Nicholas Kwan | Western A | McMaster A | 133 | 0 |
| Ezra Siegartel | Vassar | Catholic | 133 | 0 |