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What is Reversible Computing

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Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
A model of computing in which the computational process to be carried out is either of itself reversible; that is, the inputs can be uniquely determined from the resulting outputs, or the underlying platform for the computational process is reversible.
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Reversible Logic as a Stepping Stone to Quantum Computing
J. E. Rice (University of Lethbridge, Canada)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch715
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