Infinite time Turing machines extend the classical Turing machine concept to transfinite ordinal time, thereby providing a natural model of infinitary computability that sheds light on the power and limitations of supertask algorithms.
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Hamkins, J.D. (2004). Supertask computation. In: Löwe, B., Piwinger, B., Räsch, T. (eds) Classical and New Paradigms of Computation and their Complexity Hierarchies. Trends in Logic, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2776-5_8
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