The Algebraic Specifications do not have the Tennenbaum Property
Author(s) -
Grażyna Mirkowska,
Andrzej Salwicki
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
fundamenta informaticae
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.311
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1875-8681
pISSN - 0169-2968
DOI - 10.3233/fi-1996-281209
Subject(s) - property (philosophy) , algebraic number , computer science , programming language , algebra over a field , mathematics , algebraic specification , theoretical computer science , pure mathematics , specification language , epistemology , philosophy , mathematical analysis
It is commonly believed that a programmable model satisfying the axioms of a given algebraic specification guarantees good properties and is a correct implementation of the specification. This convinction might be related to the Tennenbaum's property[Ten] of the arithmetic: every computable model of the Peano arithmetic of natural numbers is isomorphic to the standard model. Here, on the example of stacks, we show a model satisfying all axioms of the algebraic specification of stacks which can not be accepted as a good model in spite of the fact that it is defined by a program. For it enables to ”pop” a stack infinitely many times.
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