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busy beaver
(1) A Turing machine with a small number of states that halts when started with a blank tape, but writes a huge number of non-blanks or takes a huge number of steps. (2) The problem of finding the maximum number of non-blanks written or steps taken for any Turing machines with a given number of states and symbols.
- Szófaj: noun
- Ipar/Tárgykör: Computer science
- Kategória: Algorithms & data structures
- Government Agency: NIST
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