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Three generators for minimal writing-space computations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2002

Serge Burckel
Affiliation:
Département de Mathématiques et d'Informatique, 15 avenue René Cassin, Université de la Réunion, 97490 Saint-Denis, France; ([email protected])
Marianne Morillon
Affiliation:
Département de Mathématiques et d'Informatique, 15 avenue René Cassin, Université de la Réunion, 97490 Saint-Denis, France; ([email protected])
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Abstract

We construct, for each integer n, three functions from {0,1}n to {0,1} such that any boolean mapping from {0,1}n to {0,1}n can be computed with a finite sequence of assignations only using the n input variables and those three functions.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© EDP Sciences, 2000

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