Meanings
verbhypercompute (third-person singular simple present hypercomputes, present participle hypercomputing, simple past and past participle hypercomputed)
present singular third person hypercomputes · participle present hypercomputing · participle past hypercomputed · past hypercomputed
- transitiveTo carry out hypercomputation.
Whether physical processes can hypercompute, i. e. compute Turing uncomputable functions “ultimately depends upon the causal (versus formal) structure of the world” (p. 144).
2008 October 22, Sven Ove Hansson, “Adam Olszewski, Jan Wolenski, and Robert Janusz (eds): Church’s Thesis After 70 Years”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI
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