Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being computable.
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- noun computing theory The property of being
computable by purely mechanical means.
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Examples
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The halting problem is a question in computability theory which asks if an algorithm can be found that decides whether a program (a Turning machine) will finish, or run forever, once given a description of such a program and a finite amount of input.
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Ada Lovelace, Haskell Curry, and Noam Chomsky all worked heavily on the foundations of computation/computability theory, and algorithmic programming.
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A late-nineteenth-century mathematician would be able to understand the idea of Turing computability and a von Neumann architecture with a few days instruction.
Archive 2009-07-01 Bill Kerr 2009
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A late-nineteenth-century mathematician would be able to understand the idea of Turing computability and a von Neumann architecture with a few days instruction.
the medium and which message? Bill Kerr 2009
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Not all computer science focuses on the run-times of algorithms or the nature of computability.
Is This Science? Luis von Ahn 2009
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Creating standards like this allows for better innovation and computability.
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Nicolas Bourbaki, who never existed, is named in the Bourbaki-Witt theorem, used in computability theory and domain theory.
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Not my fields, but I think this discussion could use some input from an expert in information theory and computability.
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Subsequently, we will discuss the profound consequences that these paradoxes have on a number of different areas: theories of truth, set theory, epistemology, foundations of mathematics, computability.
Self-Reference Bolander, Thomas 2008
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I also identified some severe computability problems it seems no one else has.
How do evolutionary processes create information? - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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