Definition of Computation
Computation
The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.
The result of computation; the amount computed.
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Computation Quotations
If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!
Rudy Rucker
All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.
Seth Lloyd
We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.
Emily Greene Balch
I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.
Seth Lloyd
Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
Rudy Rucker
A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.
Rudy Rucker
Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.
David Deutsch
Computation Translations
computation in French is supputation
computation in German is Berechnung
computation in Italian is calcolo
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