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Weak Machines

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In this chapter we study machines over ℝ that penalize multiplication by modifying their cost in such a way that iterated multiplications become increasingly expensive. This situation is close to the classical where iterated multiplications can generate very large numbers and thus cause an increase in running time. We show that the complexity determined by this modified cost is closely related to the behavior of the algorithm on integer inputs in a very precise sense.

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Blum, L., Cucker, F., Shub, M., Smale, S. (1998). Weak Machines. In: Complexity and Real Computation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0701-6_20

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