When are two algorithms the same?
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2020-06-11 v1 Data Structures and Algorithms
Logic in Computer Science
Abstract
People usually regard algorithms as more abstract than the programs that implement them. The natural way to formalize this idea is that algorithms are equivalence classes of programs with respect to a suitable equivalence relation. We argue that no such equivalence relation exists.
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@article{arxiv.0811.0811,
title = {When are two algorithms the same?},
author = {Andreas Blass and Nachum Dershowitz and Yuri Gurevich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.0811},
year = {2020}
}