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Recursion theory — Recursion theory, also called computability theory, is a branch of mathematical logic that originated in the 1930s with the study of computable functions and Turing degrees. The field has grown to include the study of generalized computability… … Wikipedia
Computability theory — For the concept of computability, see Computability. Computability theory, also called recursion theory, is a branch of mathematical logic that originated in the 1930s with the study of computable functions and Turing degrees. The field has grown … Wikipedia
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Unbounded nondeterminism — In computer science, unbounded nondeterminism or unbounded indeterminacy is a property of concurrency by which the amount of delay in servicing a request can become unbounded as a result of arbitration of contention for shared resources while… … Wikipedia
recursion theory — noun A branch of mathematical logic studying computable functions and Turing degrees, concerned with questions such as What does it mean for a function from the natural numbers to themselves to be computable? and Can noncomputable functions be… … Wiktionary
