(definition)
Definition: The condition of a finite state machine or Turing machine at a certain time. Informally, the content of memory.
See also start state, accepting state, next state, universal state, existential state.
Author: PEB
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Paul E. Black, "state", from
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data
Structures, Paul E. Black, ed.,
NIST.
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