decidable

UK [dɪˈsaɪdəbəɫ] US [dɪˈsaɪdəbəɫ]
adj 3

Definitions

adj

1

capable of being decided.

2

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 proven from the theory that "either P or not P", i.e. in symbols: P∨¬P.

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