hypercompute

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English

Etymology

From hyper- +‎ compute.

Verb

hypercompute (third-person singular simple present hypercomputes, present participle hypercomputing, simple past and past participle hypercomputed)

  1. (transitive) To carry out hypercomputation.
    • 2008 October 22, Sven Ove Hansson, “Adam Olszewski, Jan Wolenski, and Robert Janusz (eds): Church’s Thesis After 70 Years”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:
      Whether physical processes can hypercompute, i. e. compute Turing uncomputable functions “ultimately depends upon the causal (versus formal) structure of the world” (p. 144).