Lazy Beaver
The Lazy Beaver function is a computable variation of the Busy Beaver function defined by Scott Aaronson in his 2020 review.
LB(n, m) is the smallest k > 0 such that no n-state, m-symbol Turing machine halts in exactly k steps.
Computed Values
Values found by Terry and Shawn Ligocki in 2021:
| States | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||
| Symbols | 2 | 7 | 22 | 72 | 427 | 8,407 |
| 3 | 23 | 351 | 189,270 | |||
| 4 | 93 | 242,789 | ||||
| 5 | 956 | |||||
| 6 | 33,851 | |||||