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After Alan Turing.
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Today it means: A reduction that solves a problem if the solution to another problem is already known, i.e. an algorithm that could be used to solve A if it had available to it a subroutine for solving B. Full definition →
After Alan Turing.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.