Blum axioms

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In computational complexity theory the Blum axioms or Blum complexity axioms are axioms that specify desirable properties of complexity measures on the set of computable functions.

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The axioms were first defined by Manuel Blum in 1967.

Importantly, the Speedup and Gap theorems hold for any complexity measure satisfying these axioms.

The most well-known measures satisfying these axioms are those of time (i.e., running time) and space (i.e., memory usage).

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