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CORR
2008
Springer

When are two algorithms the same?

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When are two algorithms the same?
People usually regard algorithms as more abstract than the programs that implement them. The natural way to formalize this idea is that algorithms are equivalence classes of programs with respect to a suitable equivalence relation. We argue that no such equivalence relation exists.
Andreas Blass, Nachum Dershowitz, Yuri Gurevich
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Type Journal
Year 2008
Where CORR
Authors Andreas Blass, Nachum Dershowitz, Yuri Gurevich
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