decidable

adj
/dɪˈsaɪdəbəɫ/UK

Etymology

From decide + -able.

  1. derived from dēcīdere
  2. derived from decider
  3. inherited from deciden
  4. suffixed as decidable — “decide + able

Definitions

  1. capable of being decided.

  2. describing a set for which there exists an algorithm that will determine whether any…

    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.
  3. in intuitionistic logic, a proposition P is decidable in a given theory if it can be…

    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: P∨¬P.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for decidable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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