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unusual facts about non-computable function



Computable function

The Entscheidungsproblem, proposed by David Hilbert, asked whether there is an effective procedure to determine which mathematical statements (coded as natural numbers) are true.

Non-recursive function

Computable function, or total recursive function, a function computable by a Turing machine

Tibor Radó

His work focused on computer science in the last decade of his life and in May 1962 he published one of his most famous results in the Bell System Technical Journal: the Busy Beaver function and its non-computability ("On Non-Computable Functions").


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