Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

büchi automaton

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: buchi au-toma-ton
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of ω-automaton that extends a finite automaton to infinite inputs. It accepts an infinite input sequence if there exists a run of the automaton that visits (at least) one of the final states infinitely often.

Etymology

Named after the Swiss mathematician Julius Richard Büchi, who invented this kind of automaton in 1962.

Inflected Forms

Büchi automatons (plural) Büchi automata (plural)

Questions

What does büchi automaton mean?: A type of ω-automaton that extends a finite automaton to infinite inputs. It accepts an infinite input sequence if there exists a run of the automaton that visits (at least) one of the final states infinitely often.
Where does büchi automaton come from?: Named after the Swiss mathematician Julius Richard Büchi, who invented this kind of automaton in 1962.

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