Busy Beaver number

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The maximal number of steps that a -state Turing machine can make on an initially blank tape before eventually halting.
Value:
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Lower bound:
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[via Sequence A060843 in the OEIS] -
Upper bound:
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[via Sequence A060843 in the OEIS]