compute
verb (used with object)
to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate.
computability
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a word derived from
compute.
Example Sentences
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The final frontier for this creep in effective computability is ethics and morality: Can we outsource our own ethical decisions to machines?
From Slate ● May 27, 2023
You needed the modern theory of computability, which was developed by Alan Turing and other great mathematicians of the 1930s and ’40s.
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2016
His conceptual notions, such as the Universal Turing Machine, provided the basis for serious analysis of computability and decidability.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2012
He did make a brief contribution to the book, buried in chapter 26, in which he summarized computability and the universal machine.
From Nature ● Feb. 22, 2012
Turing’s very last publication, a Science News article of 1954 on computability, demonstrates how ably he could have written such an analysis.
From Newsweek
