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The Machine with a Slot

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State

A notation like h of n names a machine with a slot: h is the machine, n is what feeds the slot, and the whole expression names what comes out.

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"The estimate at state n" — a reading by what it returns, exactly as Unit 2's scoring used it.

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The parentheses are a mouth, not a multiplication — "h times n" is the misreading.