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Peteris, I liked this post but I'm not sure I understand the picture drawn for the 2-state busy-beaver. When I write out the tape using the given state sequence I get a different shape (assuming black dots are 1's)
I get:
0010
0011
0011
0111
1111
1111(halt)
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