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Infinite Time Turing Machines: Supertask Computation

Joel David Hamkins

math.LOarXiv:math/0212047

Abstract

Infinite time Turing machines extend the operation of ordinary Turing machines into transfinite ordinal time. By doing so, they provide a natural model of infinitary computability, a theoretical setting for the analysis of the power and limitations of supertask algorithms.

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