Sentence examples for Compute from inspiring English sources

Although it is often said that modern computers can compute anything (i.e., any function of natural numbers, or equivalently, any function of strings of letters from a finite alphabet), this is incorrect.

The above result should not be confused with the common claim that computers can compute anything.

Since an uncountable infinity is much larger than a countable one, it follows that Turing machines (and hence digital computers) can compute only a tiny portion of all functions (over denumerable domains, such as natural numbers or strings of letters).

Turing also showed that there are universal Turing machines — machines that can compute any function computable by any other Turing machine.

By contrast, according to the mechanistic account, the computer simply failed to compute, or at least it failed to complete its computation correctly.

By adopting a convention for representing TRUE and FALSE, perhaps that TRUE is represented as a sequence of two '1's and FALSE as one '1', we can design Turing-machines to compute the characteristic functions of computable predicates.

This is the question of how to compute the consequences of an action without the computation having to range over the action's non-effects.

It was made of DNA.The computer was so small that a trillion could exist, and compute in parallel, inside a small drop of water.

The task in 50-over cricket is almost rote now, its formula exhausted by repetition, while the blunt challenge of T20 remains brutally simple to compute.

Then, under arbitrary assumptions regarding growth rates, inflation, privatisation receipts, and so forth, they compute what primary surpluses are necessary in every year, working backward to the present.

At 10 o'clock, bang, it's the exit polls, and this time there will be Scottish exit polls to look at again, then you've got the slow bit up until 1am, then it starts to happen and you're trying to figure out if the first results compute against the exit poll".