Computable analysis
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Basic constructions
Computable real numbers
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Computable numbers are the real numbers that can be computed to within any desired precision by a finite, terminating algorithm. They are also known as the recursive numbers or the computable reals.
Computable real functions
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A function is sequentially computable if, for every computable sequence
of real numbers, the sequence
is also computable.
Basic results
The computable real numbers form a real closed field. The equality relation on computable real numbers is not computable, but for unequal computable real numbers the order relation is computable.
Computable real functions map computable real numbers to computable real numbers. The composition of computable real functions is again computable. Every computable real function is continuous.
See also
References
- Oliver Aberth (1980), Computable analysis, McGraw-Hill, 1980.
- Marian Pour-El and Ian Richards, Computability in Analysis and Physics, Springer-Verlag, 1989.
- Stephen G. Simpson (1999), Subsystems of second-order arithmetic.
- Klaus Weihrauch (2000), Computable analysis, Springer, 2000.