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recursively enumerable
For a language $L$ , TFAE:
- There exists a Turing machine $f$ such that $\forall x.(x\in L) \iff \mbox{the computation $ f(x)$ terminates}$ .
- There exists a total recursive function $f:\Nats\to L$ which is onto.
- There exists a total recursive function $f:\Nats\to L$ which is one-to-one and onto.
A language $L$ fulfilling any (and therefore all) of the above conditions is called recursively enumerable.
Examples
- Any recursive language.
- The set of encodings of Turing machines which halt when given no input.
- The set of encodings of theorems of Peano arithmetic.
- The set of integers $n$ for which the hailstone sequence starting at $n$ reaches 1. (We don't know if this set is recursive, or even if it is $\Nats$ ; but a trivial program shows it is recursively enumerable.)
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