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paddable

paddable adjective: capable of being padded; said of a set whose strings can be transformed into infinitely many further strings in the set.

Adjective

paddable (not comparable)

  1. Capable of being padded; said of a set whose strings can be transformed into infinitely many further strings in the set.
    • Under a weaker assumption, that some problem in BQP is hard on average for P/poly, we show that every paddable language outside BPP is sculptable in this way.2015, Scott Aaronson, Shalev Ben-David, “Sculpting Quantum Speedups”, in arXiv

Origin of paddable

From pad + -able.

Questions about paddable

What does paddable mean?
Paddable means capable of being padded; said of a set whose strings can be transformed into infinitely many further strings in the set.
What part of speech is paddable?
Paddable is an adjective.

Words near paddable in the dictionary

  1. padayatra
  2. padayatras
  3. Padborg
  4. Padbury
  5. paddability
  6. paddable
  7. Paddack
  8. padded
  9. padded bloc
  10. padded cell
  11. padded cells

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