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I am trying to interpret the following problem:

"Describe an algorithm for a Turing machine which receives the integer n as input and proceeds to write the description of the n-th Turing machine from the standard enumeration on its tape."

I am confused about how a Turing machine itself can represent another Turing machine (the n-th Turing machine).

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The question is probably assuming that there is some arbitrary but agreed-upon convention that specifies how to write a Turing machine description with the symbols of some alphabet. Since all Turing machines have by definition a finite description, all valid outputs will be finite strings.

The exercise itself is an ordinary combinatorics problem.

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