incomputable
/ɪnkəmˈpjuːtəb(ə)l
/adjective rare
Unable to be calculated or estimated: incomputable riches...
- It requires us to know what ‘would be’ illegal under current Canadian law in all conceivable imaginary worlds, which is an incomputable function.
- Everyone learns that winning love is about more than just impressing or listening well, but always has some illogical and incomputable element.
- Mathematicians working in an emerging field somewhere between physics, computer science and philosophy are investigating new ways of ‘computing the incomputable’ which could radically broaden our understanding of the world.
Origin
Early 17th century: from in-1 'not' + Latin computabilis 'able to be counted' (see compute).