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61Returns to scale — In economics, returns to scale and economies of scale are related terms that describe what happens as the scale of production increases in the long run, when all input levels including physical capital usage are variable (chosen by the firm).… …
62Machine that always halts — In computability theory, a machine that always halts also called a decider (Sipser, 1996) or a total Turing machine (Kozen, 1997) is a Turing machine that halts for every input. Because it always halts, the machine is able to decide whether a… …
63Keyboard layout — QWERTY keyboard on a laptop. A keyboard layout is any specific mechanical, visual, or functional arrangement of the keys, legends, or key–meaning associations (respectively) of a computer, typewriter, or other typographic keyboard. Mechanical… …
64Computation history — In computer science, a computation history is a sequence of steps taken by an abstract machine in the process of computing its result. Computation histories are frequently used in proofs about the capabilities of certain machines, and… …
65Critical Period Hypothesis — See also: Language acquisition#Critical Period hypothesis The Critical Period Hypothesis refers to a long standing debate in linguistics and language acquisition over the extent to which the ability to acquire language is biologically linked to… …
66analytic philosophy — n. a 20th cent. philosophic movement characterized by its method of analyzing concepts and statements in the light of common experience and ordinary language so as to eliminate confusions of thought and resolve many traditional philosophical… …
67Recursively enumerable set — In computability theory, traditionally called recursion theory, a set S of natural numbers is called recursively enumerable, computably enumerable, semidecidable, provable or Turing recognizable if: There is an algorithm such that the set of… …
68Criticism of the APL programming language — The APL programming language has been used since the mid 1960s on mainframe computers and has itself evolved in step with computers and the computing market. APL is not widely used, but minimalistic and high level by design, at several points in… …
69Timeline of computing hardware 2400 BC–1949 — History of computing Hardware before 1960 Hardware 1960s to present Hardware in Soviet Bloc countries Artificial intelligence Computer science Operating systems Programming languages …
70Programming language — lists Alphabetical Categorical Chronological Generational A programming language is an artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that… …
