# Computers

A computer carries out recipes. Turing and others made precise what that can mean, and the same limits that Gödel found show up in what programs can decide.

Connects to:
- [Technology](https://mapideas.org/i/technology)
- [Computation](https://mapideas.org/i/mat_computation)
- [Algorithms](https://mapideas.org/i/mat_algorithm)
- [programs](https://mapideas.org/i/s_prog)

Sources:
- [Wikipedia: Computer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer)
- [Wikipedia: Alan Turing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing)

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