busy beaver
a halting, binary-alphabet Turing machine which writes the most 1s on the tape, using only a limited set of states
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busy beaver
Summary
busy beaver ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,592 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- beaver is named after busy beaver[2].
- busy beaver's GND ID is recorded as 4282517-9[3].
- busy beaver's subclass of is recorded as Turing machine[4].
- busy beaver's Commons category is recorded as Busy beavers[5].
- busy beaver's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0ht62[6].
- busy beaver's described by source is recorded as On Non-Computable Functions[7].
- busy beaver's studied by is recorded as computability theory[8].
- busy beaver's MathWorld ID is recorded as BusyBeaver[9].
- busy beaver's Quora topic ID is recorded as Busy-Beaver-1[10].
- busy beaver's subreddit is recorded as BusyBeaver[11].
- busy beaver's Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures ID is recorded as busyBeaver[12].
- busy beaver's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[13].
- busy beaver's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 148021750[14].
- busy beaver's Namuwiki ID is recorded as 바쁜 비버[15].
- busy beaver's GitHub topic is recorded as busy-beaver[16].
Why It Matters
busy beaver ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,592 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]