Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

church-turing thesis

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.13 in modern English

Syllables: church--tur-ing the-sis
IPA

32

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

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.

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

the Church-Turing thesis (canonical)

Questions

What does church-turing thesis mean?: 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.
Where does church-turing thesis come from?: Named after American mathematician Alonzo Church and British mathematician Alan Turing.

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