Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

busy beaver function

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English

Syllables: busy beaver -func-tion
IPA

33

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

3

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The mathematical function, denoted by Σ(n), that maps each positive integer n to the number of steps required for the busy beaver among machines with two colors and n states to terminate.

Inflected Forms

busy beaver functions (plural)

Questions

What does busy beaver function mean?: The mathematical function, denoted by Σ(n), that maps each positive integer n to the number of steps required for the busy beaver among machines with two colors and n states to terminate.

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