Church-Turing thesis

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Named after American mathematician Alonzo Church and British mathematician Alan Turing.

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the Church-Turing thesis

  1. (computing theory) A hypothesis about the nature of computable functions, stating that a function on the natural numbers can be calculated by an effective method if and only if it is computable by a Turing machine.