Busy beaver function

Layer 0 — Mathematicsin the formal-systems-limits subtree

Maximum number of steps executed by an n-state 2-symbol Turing machine that halts on empty input. Uncomputable (grows faster than any computable function). BB(5) = 47,176,870 settled 2024 by the bbchallenge.org collaboration.

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