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Holger Petersen

Computable Lower Bounds for Busy Beaver Turing Machines

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(2006). Holger Petersen. In: Esik, Z., Martín-Vide, C., Mitrana, V. (eds) Recent Advances in Formal Languages and Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 25. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-33461-3_12

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