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Two of the basic characteristics of any computational procedure are:

  1. i)

    iteration of a basic operation

  2. ii)

    convergence to the result in a finite number of steps.

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Accardi, L. (1997). An Open System Approach to Quantum Computers. In: Hirota, O., Holevo, A.S., Caves, C.M. (eds) Quantum Communication, Computing, and Measurement. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5923-8_41

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