Hypercompute

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To carry out hypercomputation. transitive

    "Whether physical processes can hypercompute, i. e. compute Turing uncomputable functions “ultimately depends upon the causal (versus formal) structure of the world” (p. 144)."

Example

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"Whether physical processes can hypercompute, i. e. compute Turing uncomputable functions “ultimately depends upon the causal (versus formal) structure of the world” (p. 144)."

Etymology

From hyper- + compute.

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