computable

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The part of the article that bothers me here the most is a leading nueroscientist asserting that the brain is not computable.

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may be computed or estimated; "a calculable risk"; "computable odds"; "estimable assets"

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adjective

may be computed or estimated; "a calculable risk"; "computable odds"; "estimable assets"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for computable.

adjective

may be computed or estimated; "a calculable risk"; "computable odds"; "estimable assets"

Example sentences

The part of the article that bothers me here the most is a leading nueroscientist asserting that the brain is not computable.

In Go, errors are a computable value that you handle using the same control flow as any other value in the system.

SQL Server supports indexes on computable columns [1]6.

And the reason that it cannot be proven computable is that it grows faster than any function that can be proven computable using the Peano axioms.

By Rice's theorem, it's undecidable in a general case to decide whether two computable functions are equal, so you technically can't do this step in a general way.

So you would define a `dependentObservable` for any computable values or complex conditionals instead.

It may very well be impractical to compute a decent sized brain, but that's still technically computable, which is a serious problem in his whole "you can't reduce human nature to a computer algorithm" tirade.

It was proved that any computable algorithm can expressed in any higher level language that has sequencing of instructions, ability to select an execution path and iteration.