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the weakest condition on the initial state that guarantees a program terminates in a state satisfying a given postcondition.

In programming languages, weakest precondition refers to the weakest condition on the initial state that guarantees a program terminates in a state satisfying a given postcondition. This meaning comes from Dijkstra (1975) in Communications of the ACM.[1]

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guard2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs predicate3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs condition2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Dijkstra, E. W. (1975). Guarded commands, nondeterminacy and formal derivation of programs. Communications of the ACM, 18(8), 453-457. https://doi.org/10.1145/360933.360975

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