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### Collection of real world non computable programming tasks [duplicate]

I'm quite new to computability theory and would be interested in some examples of realistic programming tasks you could encounter when working as a C++ programmer that are not computable.
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### what is halting problem? [duplicate]

i have researched it on wikipedia and it produces me an unusual example and stories about Turing,so what i understand is if an program run in loop,an electronic device in cpu or in computer structure ...
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### Are the implications of the diagonalization language different from those of the halting problem? [duplicate]

Revised: In my previous question, I was confused about the implications of the diagonalization language. I concluded that it proves there are languages for which there are no recognizable turing ...
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### Why is the undecidability of the Halting Problem useful? [duplicate]

My understanding: The Halting Problem is undecidable for a Turing Machine, and yet it is decidable for a linear bounded automaton (a Turing Machine with finite tape). The reason is that the only way ...
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### Turing's solution to the Entscheidungsproblem [duplicate]

Based on what I have read so far, to me it sounds like Alan Turing's solution the Entscheidungsproblem means that there is no algorithmic solution to tell whether a given algorithm with input will ...
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### Does the Halting Problem have practical relevance? I can calculate all outputs for a finite number of states and inputs [duplicate]

Coming from a digital functional hardware verification background, I don’t really understand the Halting Problem. I can represent the program as a state machine and show whether all inputs in all ...
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### Why it is important to understand when a particular problem is algorithmically “unsolvable.” How should I deal with this type of problems? [duplicate]

So I learned that there are some problems that cannot be solved in computer science but I want to know why is it important to understand the unsolvable algorithm and how should I deal with it.
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### How can it be decidable whether $\pi$ has some sequence of digits?

We were given the following exercise. Let $\qquad \displaystyle f(n) = \begin{cases} 1 & 0^n \text{ occurs in the decimal representation of } \pi \\ 0 & \text{else}\end{cases}$ ...
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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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### Proof that dead code cannot be detected by compilers

I'm planning to teach a winter course on a varying number of topics, one of which is going to be compilers. Now, I came across this problem while thinking of assignments to give throughout the quarter,...
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### Why can't we solve the Halting Problem by using Artificial Intelligence? [duplicate]

Yesterday I was reading about Computability and they mention the Halting Problem. It got stuck in mind all day until I remember that some weeks ago, when learning Java, the IDE (Netbeans) show me a ...
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### Do fully optimizing compilers for terminating programs exist?

In Andrew W. Appel's book, Modern Compiler Implementation in ML, he says under chapter 17 that Computability theory shows that it will always be possible to invent new optimizing transformations and ...
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### Are there any existing problems that wouldn't be solvable with a halting oracle?

I understand that most problems are trivial if a halting oracle is available (or, I think equivalently, hyper-computation). However, applying the argument that shows the Halting Problem is impossible ...