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In previous chapters, we have referred to computational power in terms of the task modelled by our computations. When we said that two processes are equivalent, this meant that they both modelled the same task. In this chapter, we refine our notions of computational power, by discussing its three dimensions:
function: what is computed
space: how much storage the computation requires
time: how long the computation takes.
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Parkes, A.P. (2002). Dimensions of Computation. In: Introduction to Languages, Machines and Logic. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0143-7_12
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