On More or Less Appropriate Notions of ‘Computation’
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Less is more… (more or less…).
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عنوان ژورنال: South African Computer Journal
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2313-7835,1015-7999
DOI: 10.18489/sacj.v30i1.580