Theory of Computation
Smith Computer Science
The problem: Is there some way to set these boolean values so the whole thing evaluates to TRUE?
The problem: Pattern matching
The problem: More powerful pattern matching
Restricted notion of “computation”
Very general notion of computation
Here’s the thing: just knowing that it is POSSIBLE to compute a solution to a problem doesn’t give us any information about how difficult that problem is. The only information we have is… it is not impossible.
That level of resolution is not great.
What else would be useful to know (in addition to the fact that a problem is solvable)?