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By our Lemma above, the class of such words is enumerable. Hence, the class of all substitutions of our variables is enumerable. Note that the first word in this enumeration is 010/ ... 10, or, omitting 0, this word consists of k-l copies of 'I '. That is, the frrst substitution consists in putting the empty word for all occurrences of all variables in the rules of K. Now, our enumerating procedure runs as follows. Step 1. Apply the first substitution of variables . Arrange the words resulting from the rules of K by this substitution in two sequences 8 and P: put the words resulting from the input-free rules (words without arrow) into 8 and the other ones into P.
In (15), the role of the empty class in the operations is shown. Union and intersection are distributive with respect to each other, as (16) tells us. In (17), we see important connections between difference and the two other operations. Finally, in (18), some interrelations between the subclass-relation and our operations are presented. - The proof of these laws is left to the reader. Thus, A(lB=0 expressesthat A and B are disjoint classes. ) to refer to an alphabet. The totality of words formed from the letters of an alphabet Jil will be denoted by "Jil° ", and the members of jilO will be called sometimes "jil-words".
Then, the challenge arises: Try to find the simplest type of questions and commands as well as the simplest forms of steering! This will lead to the most general type of algorithms. There are several proposed solutions of this problem, which, in the course of time, were proved to be equivalent. , in metamathematics) , the problem of algorithms was re-formulated as the problem of effective computability ("reckonability") of (number theoretic) functions. In this field, the most popular solutions are elaborated in the theory of recursive functions and in the theory of Turing machines (the latter are idealized computers).