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Definition: A nondeterministic Turing machine having universal states, from which the machine accepts only if all possible moves out of that state lead to acceptance.
See also model of computation, nondeterministic Turing machine, oracle Turing machine, probabilistic Turing machine, universal Turing machine.
Note: From Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, page 24-18, Copyright © 1999 by CRC Press LLC. Appearing in the Dictionary of Computer Science, Engineering and Technology, Copyright © 2000 CRC Press LLC.
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Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, CRC Press LLC, 1999, "alternating Turing machine", in
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 17 December 2004. (accessed TODAY)
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