decidable
See also: décidable
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Adjective
decidable (comparative more decidable, superlative most decidable)
- capable of being decided.
- (computer science) describing a set for which there exists an algorithm that will determine whether any element is or is not within the set in a finite amount of time.
- It is easy to show that the set of even numbers is decidable by creating the relevant Turing machine.
- (logic) in intuitionistic logic, a proposition P is decidable in a given theory if it can be proven from the theory that "either P or not P", i.e. in symbols: .[1]
Synonyms
- (computer science): recursive, computable
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capable of being decided
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computer science: describing a set
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