computableadj.

1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia iv. v. 88 Compose in computable digestment all the Tenants with their Tenements and Rents in particular.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. xii. 218 Our forefathers..who attaining unto 8. or 900. yeares, had not their Climacters computable by digits. View more context for this quotation

1700 E. Howard Remarks New Philos. Des-Cartes iv. 287 Aristotle..could not believe, that its Matter was actually Infinite; because whatsoever is material must be quantitive, and therefore Mathematically computable.

1823 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 113 467 The series so obtained is imperfectly computable.

1880 R. Temple India 93 If the wealth of India be..not so easily measurable or computable.

1931 H. A. Overstreet Enduring Quest xi. 155 Science..makes the assumption that order is fundamental and that significance is achieved only as the world about us is seen in its measurable processes. Every atom is a computable process.

1963 S. Lees Air, Space, & Instruments 100 For each..location there is a readily computable impulsive velocity change..which will place the vehicle in a hyperbolic path with the desired terminal velocity.

1990 J. D. Barrow Theories of Everything (1991) ix. 206 There may exist no computable solution of the wave equation.

2004 Focus Feb. 85/4 The exploding PC on the cover is great,..but the content circles rather aimlessly through the trendy worlds of computability, and the kinds of problems that aren't computable.