NUMERICAL CONTROLLER

To provide a numerical controller that can detect the position at which the look-ahead blocks used to determine an acceleration/deceleration operation is insufficient in a machining program in order to stabilize feed rate, cutting speed and other factors. A numerical controller includes a program execution unit that executes a machining program, a program look-ahead unit that looks ahead at the machining program in parallel with execution of the machining program, a look-ahead blocks calculation unit that calculates a look-ahead blocks, which is the difference between a first sequence number that is the number of a block being executed by the program execution unit and a second sequence number that is the number of a block that is looked ahead by the program look-ahead unit while the machining program is being executed, and an exhaustion block detection unit that detects an exhaustion block, which is a block at which the look-ahead blocks falls below a prescribed value.