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51automata theory — Body of physical and logical principles underlying the operation of any electromechanical device (an automaton) that converts information input in one form into another, or into some action, according to an algorithm. Norbert Wiener and Alan M.… …
52Machine that always halts — In computability theory, a machine that always halts also called a decider (Sipser, 1996) or a total Turing machine (Kozen, 1997) is a Turing machine that halts for every input. Because it always halts, the machine is able to decide whether a… …
53Recursive languages and sets — This article is a temporary experiment to see whether it is feasible and desirable to merge the articles Recursive set, Recursive language, Decidable language, Decidable problem and Undecidable problem. Input on how best to do this is very much… …
54Tesis de Church-Turing — Este artículo o sección tiene un estilo difícil de entender para los lectores interesados en el tema. Si puedes, por favor edítalo y contribuye a hacerlo más accesible para el público general, sin eliminar los detalles técnicos que interesan a… …
55Rice's theorem — In computer science, Rice s theorem named after Henry Gordon Rice (also known as The Rice Myhill Shapiro theorem after Rice and John Myhill) states that, for any non trivial property of partial functions, there exists at least one algorithm for… …
56Busy beaver — In computability theory, a busy beaver (from the colloquial expression for an industrious person) is a Turing machine that attains the maximum operational busyness (such as measured by the number of steps performed, or the number of nonblank… …
57König's lemma — or König s infinity lemma is a theorem in graph theory due to Dénes Kőnig (1936). It gives a sufficient condition for an infinite graph to have an infinitely long path. The computability aspects of this theorem have been thoroughly investigated… …
58Turing's proof — First published in January 1937 with the title On Computable Numbers, With an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem , Turing s proof was the second proof of the assertion (Alonzo Church proof was first) that some questions are undecidable :… …
59Primitive recursive function — The primitive recursive functions are defined using primitive recursion and composition as central operations and are a strict subset of the recursive functions (recursive functions are also known as computable functions). The term was coined by… …
60Function (mathematics) — f(x) redirects here. For the band, see f(x) (band). Graph of example function, In mathematics, a function associates one quantity, the a …
