incomputable (Meaning)

Wordnet

incomputable (s)

beyond calculation or measure

Webster

incomputable (a.)

Not computable.

FAQs About the word incomputable

beyond calculation or measureNot computable.

incalculable, infinite, inestimable, unmeasured,innumerable, countless, vast, unbounded, inexhaustible, measureless

finite, bounded, definite, restricted, bounded, confined, finite, circumscribed, definite, circumscribed

The halting problem for Turing machines is incomputable, meaning there is no algorithm that can determine whether a given program will eventually halt or run forever.

Gödel's incompleteness theorems state that any consistent axiomatic system capable of describing basic arithmetic is incomputable.

The Busy Beaver function, which counts the maximum number of steps taken by a Turing machine before halting, is incomputable.

The Collatz conjecture, which proposes a simple algorithm to determine if a positive integer will eventually reach 1, has been proven to be incomputable.