18 questions linked to/from Perplexed by Rice's theorem
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### What are the simplest examples of programs that we do not know whether they terminate?

The halting problem states there is no algorithm that will determine if a given program halts. As a consequence, there should be programs about which we can not tell whether they terminate or not. ...
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### How to show that a function is not computable?

I know that there exist a Turing Machine, if a function is computable. Then how to show that the function is not computable or there aren't any Turing Machine for that. Is there anything like a ...
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### The bounded halting problem is decidable. Why doesn't this conflict with Rice's theorem?

One statement of Rice's theorem is given on page 35 of "Computational Complexity: a Modern Approach" (Arora-Barak): A partial function from $\{0,1\}^*$ to $\{0,1\}^*$ is a function that is not ...
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### What's a trivial property?

I have to show a property P is trivial. This problem has to do with Rice's Theorem, which I do not completely understand. Can someone explain the difference between trivial and non-trivial properties?...
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### Rice's theorem for non-semantic properties

Rice's theorem tell us that the only semantic properties of Turing Machines (i.e. the properties of the function computed by the machine) that we can decide are the two trivial properties (i.e. always ...
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### Implications of Rice's theorem

Every time I think I get what Rice's theorem means, I find a counterexample to confuse myself. Maybe someone can tell me where I'm thinking wrong. Lets take some non-trivial property of the set of ...
An index set is a set of all indices of some family of computably enumerable sets. It is known that the empty set is an index set and that $K = \{e \mid e \in W_e\}$ is not an index set. The ...