Decidable vs Null - What's the difference?
decidable | null |
capable of being decided.
(computer science) describing a set for which there exists an algorithm that will determine whether any element is or is not within the set in a finite amount of time.
(logic) in intuitionistic logic, a proposition P'' is decidable in a given theory if it can be proven from the theory that "either ''P'' or not ''P ", i.e. in symbols: .http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-intuitionistic/
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between decidable and null
is that decidable is decidable while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.decidable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It is easy to show that the set of even numbers is decidable by creating the relevant Turing machine.
Synonyms
* (computer science) recursive, computableAntonyms
* undecidableDerived terms
* semi-decidableReferences
null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.