Certainly a Turing machine can be anything which is strictly defined by the return of an abstract output after the manipulation/transformation of a symbolic map it receives as input/initial state—so, a Turing machine can be a simulator, a calculator, a chess playing program, etc, etc.
Certainly a Turing machine can be anything which is strictly defined by the return of an abstract output after the manipulation/transformation of a symbolic map it receives as input/initial state—so, a Turing machine can be a simulator, a calculator, a chess playing program, etc, etc.