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Definition: One kind of computation can be simulated by another kind within stated complexity bounds. Most known containment or equality relationships between complexity classes were proved this way.
See also separation theorem.
Note: From Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, page 27-21, Copyright © 1999 by CRC Press LLC. Appearing in the Dictionary of Computer Science, Engineering and Technology, Copyright © 2000 CRC Press LLC.
Author: CRC-A
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Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, CRC Press LLC, 1999, "simulation theorem", in
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data
Structures [online], Paul E. Black, ed.,
U.S. National Institute of
Standards and Technology. 17 December 2004. (accessed TODAY)
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