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<p><a href="page.php?w=General_recursive_function">general recursiveness</a> and <a href="page.php?w=Emil_Post">Emil Post</a>'s 1-definability.</p>

<p>Today, any formal statement or calculation that exhibits this quality of well-definedness is termed <b>computable</b>, while the statement or calculation itself is referred to as a <b>computation</b>.</p>

<p>Turing's definition apportioned "well-definedness" to a very large class of mathematical statements, including all well-formed <a href="page.php?w=equations">algebraic statements</a>, and all</p><p>
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