• polcott's hypothesis lacks effectiveness

    From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Fri Oct 10 17:49:15 2025
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    sure it computes /something/ but does that something allow for any
    additional computation ability?

    no,

    and that's what he's failing to understand
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory on Fri Oct 10 19:52:06 2025
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    On 10/10/2025 7:49 PM, dart200 wrote:
    sure it computes /something/ but does that something allow for any additional computation ability?

    no,

    and that's what he's failing to understand


    I am failing to understand nothing about this.
    I already showed that I understood the conventional
    halting problem is impossible 21 years ago.
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Fri Oct 10 18:07:09 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/10/25 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 7:49 PM, dart200 wrote:
    sure it computes /something/ but does that something allow for any
    additional computation ability?

    no,

    and that's what he's failing to understand


    I am failing to understand nothing about this.
    I already showed that I understood the conventional
    halting problem is impossible 21 years ago.


    yeah you showed the same thing martin and kleene both did back in 1952,
    and you haven't understood what turing shown in 1936 (no one here does actually)

    but what ur not doing in spite of all of this is actually showing what
    we can /effectively compute/ with ur hypothesis.

    keyword being /effective/.

    doesn't matter that ur hypothesis produces *some* answer, it needs to /effectively/ answer a question, and you haven't defined what that
    question is ...

    or more importantly why the fuck care about that question being answered.

    ur lack in understanding what /effectively compute/ means
    --
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    basic programmatic considerations like halting analysis.

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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory on Fri Oct 10 20:26:50 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/10/2025 8:07 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 7:49 PM, dart200 wrote:
    sure it computes /something/ but does that something allow for any
    additional computation ability?

    no,

    and that's what he's failing to understand


    I am failing to understand nothing about this.
    I already showed that I understood the conventional
    halting problem is impossible 21 years ago.


    yeah you showed the same thing martin and kleene both did back in 1952,
    and you haven't understood what turing shown in 1936 (no one here does actually)


    That is possibly correct.

    but what ur not doing in spite of all of this is actually showing what
    we can /effectively compute/ with ur hypothesis.


    Sure I am. HHH(DD) can effectively compute that it
    must abort its simulation of DD to prevent its own
    non-termination behavior.

    keyword being /effective/.

    doesn't matter that ur hypothesis produces *some* answer, it needs to / effectively/ answer a question, and you haven't defined what that
    question is ...


    Do I need to abort the simulation of my input
    to prevent my own non-termination?

    or more importantly why the fuck care about that question being answered.

    ur lack in understanding what /effectively compute/ means


    That is not the term-of-the-art.

    Before the precise definition of computable functions,
    mathematicians often used the informal term effectively
    calculable.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_function
    --
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    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Fri Oct 10 19:21:33 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/10/25 6:26 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 8:07 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 7:49 PM, dart200 wrote:
    sure it computes /something/ but does that something allow for any
    additional computation ability?

    no,

    and that's what he's failing to understand


    I am failing to understand nothing about this.
    I already showed that I understood the conventional
    halting problem is impossible 21 years ago.


    yeah you showed the same thing martin and kleene both did back in
    1952, and you haven't understood what turing shown in 1936 (no one
    here does actually)


    That is possibly correct.

    but what ur not doing in spite of all of this is actually showing what
    we can /effectively compute/ with ur hypothesis.


    Sure I am. HHH(DD) can effectively compute that it
    must abort its simulation of DD to prevent its own
    non-termination behavior.

    keyword being /effective/.

    doesn't matter that ur hypothesis produces *some* answer, it needs
    to / effectively/ answer a question, and you haven't defined what that
    question is ...


    Do I need to abort the simulation of my input
    to prevent my own non-termination?

    when HHH decides on DD1 (which uses the HHH1 decider instead of HHH),
    then it's not answering that fucking question now is it???

    the question it answers needs to be in regards to *all* the input, not
    just a particular DD input...

    so wtf is HHH computing then???


    or more importantly why the fuck care about that question being answered.

    ur lack in understanding what /effectively compute/ means


    That is not the term-of-the-art.

    it is very much term-of-the-art for the actual problem turing brought up
    in the initial paper on the matter, which isn't entirely represented by
    the simple halting paradox that you spent 22 years on.


    Before the precise definition of computable functions,
    mathematicians often used the informal term effectively
    calculable.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_function

    --
    a burnt out swe investigating into why our tooling doesn't involve
    basic programmatic considerations like halting analysis.

    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,

    ~ nick
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory on Fri Oct 10 23:26:32 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/10/2025 9:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 6:26 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 8:07 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 7:49 PM, dart200 wrote:
    sure it computes /something/ but does that something allow for any
    additional computation ability?

    no,

    and that's what he's failing to understand


    I am failing to understand nothing about this.
    I already showed that I understood the conventional
    halting problem is impossible 21 years ago.


    yeah you showed the same thing martin and kleene both did back in
    1952, and you haven't understood what turing shown in 1936 (no one
    here does actually)


    That is possibly correct.

    but what ur not doing in spite of all of this is actually showing
    what we can /effectively compute/ with ur hypothesis.


    Sure I am. HHH(DD) can effectively compute that it
    must abort its simulation of DD to prevent its own
    non-termination behavior.

    keyword being /effective/.

    doesn't matter that ur hypothesis produces *some* answer, it needs
    to / effectively/ answer a question, and you haven't defined what
    that question is ...


    Do I need to abort the simulation of my input
    to prevent my own non-termination?

    when HHH decides on DD1 (which uses the HHH1 decider instead of HHH),
    then it's not answering that fucking question now is it???

    the question it answers needs to be in regards to *all* the input, not
    just a particular DD input...

    so wtf is HHH computing then???


    It is computing: Do I need to abort this input
    to prevent my own non-termination? Yes means
    non-halting no means halting.


    or more importantly why the fuck care about that question being
    answered.

    ur lack in understanding what /effectively compute/ means


    That is not the term-of-the-art.

    it is very much term-of-the-art for the actual problem turing brought up
    in the initial paper on the matter, which isn't entirely represented by
    the simple halting paradox that you spent 22 years on.


    No one calls it that now.


    Before the precise definition of computable functions,
    mathematicians often used the informal term effectively
    calculable.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_function


    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory on Fri Oct 10 23:26:42 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/10/2025 9:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 6:26 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 8:07 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 7:49 PM, dart200 wrote:
    sure it computes /something/ but does that something allow for any
    additional computation ability?

    no,

    and that's what he's failing to understand


    I am failing to understand nothing about this.
    I already showed that I understood the conventional
    halting problem is impossible 21 years ago.


    yeah you showed the same thing martin and kleene both did back in
    1952, and you haven't understood what turing shown in 1936 (no one
    here does actually)


    That is possibly correct.

    but what ur not doing in spite of all of this is actually showing
    what we can /effectively compute/ with ur hypothesis.


    Sure I am. HHH(DD) can effectively compute that it
    must abort its simulation of DD to prevent its own
    non-termination behavior.

    keyword being /effective/.

    doesn't matter that ur hypothesis produces *some* answer, it needs
    to / effectively/ answer a question, and you haven't defined what
    that question is ...


    Do I need to abort the simulation of my input
    to prevent my own non-termination?

    when HHH decides on DD1 (which uses the HHH1 decider instead of HHH),
    then it's not answering that fucking question now is it???

    the question it answers needs to be in regards to *all* the input, not
    just a particular DD input...

    so wtf is HHH computing then???


    It is computing: Do I need to abort this input
    to prevent my own non-termination? Yes means
    non-halting no means halting.


    or more importantly why the fuck care about that question being
    answered.

    ur lack in understanding what /effectively compute/ means


    That is not the term-of-the-art.

    it is very much term-of-the-art for the actual problem turing brought up
    in the initial paper on the matter, which isn't entirely represented by
    the simple halting paradox that you spent 22 years on.


    No one calls it that now.


    Before the precise definition of computable functions,
    mathematicians often used the informal term effectively
    calculable.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_function


    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Fri Oct 10 23:49:13 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/10/25 9:26 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 9:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 6:26 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 8:07 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 7:49 PM, dart200 wrote:
    sure it computes /something/ but does that something allow for any >>>>>> additional computation ability?

    no,

    and that's what he's failing to understand


    I am failing to understand nothing about this.
    I already showed that I understood the conventional
    halting problem is impossible 21 years ago.


    yeah you showed the same thing martin and kleene both did back in
    1952, and you haven't understood what turing shown in 1936 (no one
    here does actually)


    That is possibly correct.

    but what ur not doing in spite of all of this is actually showing
    what we can /effectively compute/ with ur hypothesis.


    Sure I am. HHH(DD) can effectively compute that it
    must abort its simulation of DD to prevent its own
    non-termination behavior.

    keyword being /effective/.

    doesn't matter that ur hypothesis produces *some* answer, it needs
    to / effectively/ answer a question, and you haven't defined what
    that question is ...


    Do I need to abort the simulation of my input
    to prevent my own non-termination?

    when HHH decides on DD1 (which uses the HHH1 decider instead of HHH),
    then it's not answering that fucking question now is it???

    the question it answers needs to be in regards to *all* the input, not
    just a particular DD input...

    so wtf is HHH computing then???


    It is computing: Do I need to abort this input
    to prevent my own non-termination?-a Yes means
    non-halting no means halting.

    and why do i care whether HHH(DD) needs to abort on the input? it
    doesn't mean the input is non-halting, as DD() run from anywhere but
    within HHH(DD) halts.



    or more importantly why the fuck care about that question being
    answered.

    ur lack in understanding what /effectively compute/ means


    That is not the term-of-the-art.

    it is very much term-of-the-art for the actual problem turing brought
    up in the initial paper on the matter, which isn't entirely
    represented by the simple halting paradox that you spent 22 years on.


    No one calls it that now.

    they do when they talk about why turing created the halting paradox in
    the first place. u just never got that far into the theory.



    Before the precise definition of computable functions,
    mathematicians often used the informal term effectively
    calculable.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_function




    --
    a burnt out swe investigating into why our tooling doesn't involve
    basic programmatic considerations like halting analysis.

    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,

    ~ nick
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  • From dbush@dbush.mobile@gmail.com to comp.theory on Sat Oct 11 08:00:10 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/11/2025 12:26 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 9:21 PM, dart200 wrote:

    when HHH decides on DD1 (which uses the HHH1 decider instead of HHH),
    then it's not answering that fucking question now is it???

    the question it answers needs to be in regards to *all* the input, not
    just a particular DD input...

    so wtf is HHH computing then???


    It is computing: Do I need to abort this input
    to prevent my own non-termination?-a Yes means
    non-halting no means halting.
    So you just admitted that HHH is not a halt decider because it is not computing the mapping that is required to be oneL


    Given any algorithm (i.e. a fixed immutable sequence of instructions) X described as <X> with input Y:

    A solution to the halting problem is an algorithm H that computes the following mapping:

    (<X>,Y) maps to 1 if and only if X(Y) halts when executed directly
    (<X>,Y) maps to 0 if and only if X(Y) does not halt when executed directly

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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory on Sat Oct 11 07:05:34 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/11/2025 1:49 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 9:26 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 9:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 6:26 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 8:07 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 7:49 PM, dart200 wrote:
    sure it computes /something/ but does that something allow for
    any additional computation ability?

    no,

    and that's what he's failing to understand


    I am failing to understand nothing about this.
    I already showed that I understood the conventional
    halting problem is impossible 21 years ago.


    yeah you showed the same thing martin and kleene both did back in
    1952, and you haven't understood what turing shown in 1936 (no one
    here does actually)


    That is possibly correct.

    but what ur not doing in spite of all of this is actually showing
    what we can /effectively compute/ with ur hypothesis.


    Sure I am. HHH(DD) can effectively compute that it
    must abort its simulation of DD to prevent its own
    non-termination behavior.

    keyword being /effective/.

    doesn't matter that ur hypothesis produces *some* answer, it needs
    to / effectively/ answer a question, and you haven't defined what
    that question is ...


    Do I need to abort the simulation of my input
    to prevent my own non-termination?

    when HHH decides on DD1 (which uses the HHH1 decider instead of HHH),
    then it's not answering that fucking question now is it???

    the question it answers needs to be in regards to *all* the input,
    not just a particular DD input...

    so wtf is HHH computing then???


    It is computing: Do I need to abort this input
    to prevent my own non-termination?-a Yes means
    non-halting no means halting.

    and why do i care whether HHH(DD) needs to abort on the input? it
    doesn't mean the input is non-halting, as DD() run from anywhere but
    within HHH(DD) halts.


    If the input is a denial of service attack
    that targets a specific DOS detector the
    DOS detector catches this and prevents the
    attack. On every other input it is just an
    ordinary halt decider.

    Besides an operating system level halt decider
    this is the best halt decider than anyone can
    ever create.



    or more importantly why the fuck care about that question being
    answered.

    ur lack in understanding what /effectively compute/ means


    That is not the term-of-the-art.

    it is very much term-of-the-art for the actual problem turing brought
    up in the initial paper on the matter, which isn't entirely
    represented by the simple halting paradox that you spent 22 years on.


    No one calls it that now.

    they do when they talk about why turing created the halting paradox in
    the first place. u just never got that far into the theory.


    What does it mean?
    The new term now is Computable function.



    Before the precise definition of computable functions,
    mathematicians often used the informal term effectively
    calculable.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_function






    --
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory on Sat Oct 11 07:13:24 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/11/2025 7:00 AM, dbush wrote:
    On 10/11/2025 12:26 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 9:21 PM, dart200 wrote:

    when HHH decides on DD1 (which uses the HHH1 decider instead of HHH),
    then it's not answering that fucking question now is it???

    the question it answers needs to be in regards to *all* the input,
    not just a particular DD input...

    so wtf is HHH computing then???


    It is computing: Do I need to abort this input
    to prevent my own non-termination?-a Yes means
    non-halting no means halting.

    So you just admitted that HHH is not a halt decider because it is not computing the mapping that is required to be oneL


    *This just seems forever over-your-head*

    Turing machine deciders only compute the mapping
    from their finite string inputs to an accept state
    or reject state on the basis that this input finite
    string specifies a semantic or syntactic property.


    Given any algorithm (i.e. a fixed immutable sequence of instructions) X described as <X> with input Y:

    A solution to the halting problem is an algorithm H that computes the following mapping:

    (<X>,Y) maps to 1 if and only if X(Y) halts when executed directly
    (<X>,Y) maps to 0 if and only if X(Y) does not halt when executed directly

    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From dbush@dbush.mobile@gmail.com to comp.theory on Sat Oct 11 08:36:33 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/11/2025 8:13 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/11/2025 7:00 AM, dbush wrote:
    On 10/11/2025 12:26 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 9:21 PM, dart200 wrote:

    when HHH decides on DD1 (which uses the HHH1 decider instead of
    HHH), then it's not answering that fucking question now is it???

    the question it answers needs to be in regards to *all* the input,
    not just a particular DD input...

    so wtf is HHH computing then???


    It is computing: Do I need to abort this input
    to prevent my own non-termination?-a Yes means
    non-halting no means halting.

    So you just admitted that HHH is not a halt decider because it is not
    computing the mapping that is required to be oneL


    *This just seems forever over-your-head*

    Turing machine deciders only compute the mapping
    from their finite string inputs to an accept state
    or reject state on the basis that this input finite
    string specifies a semantic or syntactic property.

    And it true by the meaning of the words that a finite string description
    of a Turing machine specifies all of the semantic properties of the
    machine it describes, including whether it halts when executed directly.



    Given any algorithm (i.e. a fixed immutable sequence of instructions)
    X described as <X> with input Y:

    A solution to the halting problem is an algorithm H that computes the
    following mapping:

    (<X>,Y) maps to 1 if and only if X(Y) halts when executed directly
    (<X>,Y) maps to 0 if and only if X(Y) does not halt when executed
    directly




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  • From Richard Heathfield@rjh@cpax.org.uk to comp.theory on Sat Oct 11 13:44:06 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 11/10/2025 13:00, dbush wrote:
    On 10/11/2025 12:26 AM, olcott wrote:

    <snip>

    It is computing: Do I need to abort this input
    to prevent my own non-termination?-a Yes means
    non-halting no means halting.
    So you just admitted that HHH is not a halt decider because it is
    not computing the mapping that is required to be one


    Well, maybe he didn't mean to admit that; he may just have
    misspoke, as we all do from time to time.

    /You/ know it's not a halt decider, and I know it, and I imagine
    most c.t subscribers know it, but maybe it's not actuallu
    necessary for him to know it.
    --
    Richard Heathfield
    Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
    "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
    Sig line 4 vacant - apply within
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory on Sat Oct 11 08:43:39 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/11/2025 7:36 AM, dbush wrote:
    On 10/11/2025 8:13 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/11/2025 7:00 AM, dbush wrote:
    On 10/11/2025 12:26 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 9:21 PM, dart200 wrote:

    when HHH decides on DD1 (which uses the HHH1 decider instead of
    HHH), then it's not answering that fucking question now is it???

    the question it answers needs to be in regards to *all* the input,
    not just a particular DD input...

    so wtf is HHH computing then???


    It is computing: Do I need to abort this input
    to prevent my own non-termination?-a Yes means
    non-halting no means halting.

    So you just admitted that HHH is not a halt decider because it is not
    computing the mapping that is required to be oneL


    *This just seems forever over-your-head*

    Turing machine deciders only compute the mapping
    from their finite string inputs to an accept state
    or reject state on the basis that this input finite
    string specifies a semantic or syntactic property.

    And it true by the meaning of the words that a finite string description
    of a Turing machine specifies all of the semantic properties of the
    machine it describes, including whether it halts when executed directly.


    Turing machine deciders only compute the mapping
    from their finite string inputs to an accept state
    or reject state on the basis that this input finite
    string specifies a semantic or syntactic property.

    The only way to correctly determine the actual behavior
    that an actual input actually specifies is for simulating
    halt decider H to simulate its input D.

    The input to HHH(DD) specifies that DD calls HHH(DD)
    in recursive simulation, such that the call from the
    simulated DD to the simulated HHH(DD) cannot possibly
    return. *This cannot be correctly ignored*

    The input to HHH1(DD) specifies that the call from the
    simulated DD to the simulated HHH(DD) does return.
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    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From dbush@dbush.mobile@gmail.com to comp.theory on Sat Oct 11 09:46:58 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/11/2025 9:43 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/11/2025 7:36 AM, dbush wrote:
    On 10/11/2025 8:13 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/11/2025 7:00 AM, dbush wrote:
    On 10/11/2025 12:26 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 9:21 PM, dart200 wrote:

    when HHH decides on DD1 (which uses the HHH1 decider instead of
    HHH), then it's not answering that fucking question now is it???

    the question it answers needs to be in regards to *all* the input, >>>>>> not just a particular DD input...

    so wtf is HHH computing then???


    It is computing: Do I need to abort this input
    to prevent my own non-termination?-a Yes means
    non-halting no means halting.

    So you just admitted that HHH is not a halt decider because it is
    not computing the mapping that is required to be oneL


    *This just seems forever over-your-head*

    Turing machine deciders only compute the mapping
    from their finite string inputs to an accept state
    or reject state on the basis that this input finite
    string specifies a semantic or syntactic property.

    And it true by the meaning of the words that a finite string
    description of a Turing machine specifies all of the semantic
    properties of the machine it describes, including whether it halts
    when executed directly.


    <repeat of previously refuted point / copy paste reply>
    This constitutes your admission that halt deciders compute the mapping
    from their finite string inputs to the halting behavior of the machines
    those finite strings are a description of.
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  • From Mikko@mikko.levanto@iki.fi to comp.theory on Sun Oct 12 12:11:46 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 2025-10-11 00:52:06 +0000, olcott said:

    On 10/10/2025 7:49 PM, dart200 wrote:
    sure it computes /something/ but does that something allow for any
    additional computation ability?

    no,

    and that's what he's failing to understand

    I am failing to understand nothing about this.
    I already showed that I understood the conventional
    halting problem is impossible 21 years ago.

    So far we have seen no evidence that you understand what it means
    to understand to something. Fortunately that understanding is not
    relevant to the topic area of comp.theory.
    --
    Mikko

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  • From dart200@user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid to comp.theory on Sun Oct 12 12:52:01 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/10/25 9:26 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 9:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 6:26 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 8:07 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 7:49 PM, dart200 wrote:
    sure it computes /something/ but does that something allow for any >>>>>> additional computation ability?

    no,

    and that's what he's failing to understand


    I am failing to understand nothing about this.
    I already showed that I understood the conventional
    halting problem is impossible 21 years ago.


    yeah you showed the same thing martin and kleene both did back in
    1952, and you haven't understood what turing shown in 1936 (no one
    here does actually)


    That is possibly correct.

    but what ur not doing in spite of all of this is actually showing
    what we can /effectively compute/ with ur hypothesis.


    Sure I am. HHH(DD) can effectively compute that it
    must abort its simulation of DD to prevent its own
    non-termination behavior.

    keyword being /effective/.

    doesn't matter that ur hypothesis produces *some* answer, it needs
    to / effectively/ answer a question, and you haven't defined what
    that question is ...


    Do I need to abort the simulation of my input
    to prevent my own non-termination?

    when HHH decides on DD1 (which uses the HHH1 decider instead of HHH),
    then it's not answering that fucking question now is it???

    the question it answers needs to be in regards to *all* the input, not
    just a particular DD input...

    so wtf is HHH computing then???


    It is computing: Do I need to abort this input
    to prevent my own non-termination?-a Yes means
    non-halting no means halting.

    yeah but when HHH is deciding on another program that loops forever
    without calling HHH ... that's not the case, now is it?



    or more importantly why the fuck care about that question being
    answered.

    ur lack in understanding what /effectively compute/ means


    That is not the term-of-the-art.

    it is very much term-of-the-art for the actual problem turing brought
    up in the initial paper on the matter, which isn't entirely
    represented by the simple halting paradox that you spent 22 years on.


    No one calls it that now.


    Before the precise definition of computable functions,
    mathematicians often used the informal term effectively
    calculable.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_function




    --
    a burnt out swe investigating into why our tooling doesn't involve
    basic semantic proofs like halting analysis

    please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,

    ~ nick

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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory on Sun Oct 12 17:13:54 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/12/2025 2:52 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 9:26 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 9:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 6:26 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 8:07 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 7:49 PM, dart200 wrote:
    sure it computes /something/ but does that something allow for
    any additional computation ability?

    no,

    and that's what he's failing to understand


    I am failing to understand nothing about this.
    I already showed that I understood the conventional
    halting problem is impossible 21 years ago.


    yeah you showed the same thing martin and kleene both did back in
    1952, and you haven't understood what turing shown in 1936 (no one
    here does actually)


    That is possibly correct.

    but what ur not doing in spite of all of this is actually showing
    what we can /effectively compute/ with ur hypothesis.


    Sure I am. HHH(DD) can effectively compute that it
    must abort its simulation of DD to prevent its own
    non-termination behavior.

    keyword being /effective/.

    doesn't matter that ur hypothesis produces *some* answer, it needs
    to / effectively/ answer a question, and you haven't defined what
    that question is ...


    Do I need to abort the simulation of my input
    to prevent my own non-termination?

    when HHH decides on DD1 (which uses the HHH1 decider instead of HHH),
    then it's not answering that fucking question now is it???

    the question it answers needs to be in regards to *all* the input,
    not just a particular DD input...

    so wtf is HHH computing then???


    It is computing: Do I need to abort this input
    to prevent my own non-termination?-a Yes means
    non-halting no means halting.

    yeah but when HHH is deciding on another program that loops forever
    without calling HHH ... that's not the case, now is it?


    Yes it is always the case.



    or more importantly why the fuck care about that question being
    answered.

    ur lack in understanding what /effectively compute/ means


    That is not the term-of-the-art.

    it is very much term-of-the-art for the actual problem turing brought
    up in the initial paper on the matter, which isn't entirely
    represented by the simple halting paradox that you spent 22 years on.


    No one calls it that now.


    Before the precise definition of computable functions,
    mathematicians often used the informal term effectively
    calculable.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_function






    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Sun Oct 12 16:01:44 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/11/2025 5:05 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/11/2025 1:49 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 9:26 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 9:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 6:26 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 8:07 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 7:49 PM, dart200 wrote:
    sure it computes /something/ but does that something allow for >>>>>>>> any additional computation ability?

    no,

    and that's what he's failing to understand


    I am failing to understand nothing about this.
    I already showed that I understood the conventional
    halting problem is impossible 21 years ago.


    yeah you showed the same thing martin and kleene both did back in >>>>>> 1952, and you haven't understood what turing shown in 1936 (no one >>>>>> here does actually)


    That is possibly correct.

    but what ur not doing in spite of all of this is actually showing >>>>>> what we can /effectively compute/ with ur hypothesis.


    Sure I am. HHH(DD) can effectively compute that it
    must abort its simulation of DD to prevent its own
    non-termination behavior.

    keyword being /effective/.

    doesn't matter that ur hypothesis produces *some* answer, it needs >>>>>> to / effectively/ answer a question, and you haven't defined what >>>>>> that question is ...


    Do I need to abort the simulation of my input
    to prevent my own non-termination?

    when HHH decides on DD1 (which uses the HHH1 decider instead of
    HHH), then it's not answering that fucking question now is it???

    the question it answers needs to be in regards to *all* the input,
    not just a particular DD input...

    so wtf is HHH computing then???


    It is computing: Do I need to abort this input
    to prevent my own non-termination?-a Yes means
    non-halting no means halting.

    and why do i care whether HHH(DD) needs to abort on the input? it
    doesn't mean the input is non-halting, as DD() run from anywhere but
    within HHH(DD) halts.


    If the input is a denial of service attack
    that targets a specific DOS detector the
    DOS detector catches this and prevents the
    attack. On every other input it is just an
    ordinary halt decider.

    Besides an operating system level halt decider
    this is the best halt decider than anyone can
    ever create.

    Huh? You never created any Kernel code or anything. No way. I would bet against it. Would I be wrong?

    [...]

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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory on Sun Oct 12 18:04:45 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/12/2025 6:01 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/11/2025 5:05 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/11/2025 1:49 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 9:26 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 9:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 6:26 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 8:07 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 7:49 PM, dart200 wrote:
    sure it computes /something/ but does that something allow for >>>>>>>>> any additional computation ability?

    no,

    and that's what he's failing to understand


    I am failing to understand nothing about this.
    I already showed that I understood the conventional
    halting problem is impossible 21 years ago.


    yeah you showed the same thing martin and kleene both did back in >>>>>>> 1952, and you haven't understood what turing shown in 1936 (no
    one here does actually)


    That is possibly correct.

    but what ur not doing in spite of all of this is actually showing >>>>>>> what we can /effectively compute/ with ur hypothesis.


    Sure I am. HHH(DD) can effectively compute that it
    must abort its simulation of DD to prevent its own
    non-termination behavior.

    keyword being /effective/.

    doesn't matter that ur hypothesis produces *some* answer, it
    needs to / effectively/ answer a question, and you haven't
    defined what that question is ...


    Do I need to abort the simulation of my input
    to prevent my own non-termination?

    when HHH decides on DD1 (which uses the HHH1 decider instead of
    HHH), then it's not answering that fucking question now is it???

    the question it answers needs to be in regards to *all* the input,
    not just a particular DD input...

    so wtf is HHH computing then???


    It is computing: Do I need to abort this input
    to prevent my own non-termination?-a Yes means
    non-halting no means halting.

    and why do i care whether HHH(DD) needs to abort on the input? it
    doesn't mean the input is non-halting, as DD() run from anywhere but
    within HHH(DD) halts.


    If the input is a denial of service attack
    that targets a specific DOS detector the
    DOS detector catches this and prevents the
    attack. On every other input it is just an
    ordinary halt decider.

    Besides an operating system level halt decider
    this is the best halt decider than anyone can
    ever create.

    Huh? You never created any Kernel code or anything. No way. I would bet against it. Would I be wrong?

    [...]


    I wrote the entire x86utm operating system
    including cooperative multi-tasking so that
    HHH can simulate itself simulating DD to
    an arbitrary depth.
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Sun Oct 12 18:36:13 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/12/2025 4:04 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/12/2025 6:01 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/11/2025 5:05 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/11/2025 1:49 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 9:26 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 9:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 6:26 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 8:07 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 7:49 PM, dart200 wrote:
    sure it computes /something/ but does that something allow for >>>>>>>>>> any additional computation ability?

    no,

    and that's what he's failing to understand


    I am failing to understand nothing about this.
    I already showed that I understood the conventional
    halting problem is impossible 21 years ago.


    yeah you showed the same thing martin and kleene both did back >>>>>>>> in 1952, and you haven't understood what turing shown in 1936 >>>>>>>> (no one here does actually)


    That is possibly correct.

    but what ur not doing in spite of all of this is actually
    showing what we can /effectively compute/ with ur hypothesis.


    Sure I am. HHH(DD) can effectively compute that it
    must abort its simulation of DD to prevent its own
    non-termination behavior.

    keyword being /effective/.

    doesn't matter that ur hypothesis produces *some* answer, it
    needs to / effectively/ answer a question, and you haven't
    defined what that question is ...


    Do I need to abort the simulation of my input
    to prevent my own non-termination?

    when HHH decides on DD1 (which uses the HHH1 decider instead of
    HHH), then it's not answering that fucking question now is it???

    the question it answers needs to be in regards to *all* the input, >>>>>> not just a particular DD input...

    so wtf is HHH computing then???


    It is computing: Do I need to abort this input
    to prevent my own non-termination?-a Yes means
    non-halting no means halting.

    and why do i care whether HHH(DD) needs to abort on the input? it
    doesn't mean the input is non-halting, as DD() run from anywhere but
    within HHH(DD) halts.


    If the input is a denial of service attack
    that targets a specific DOS detector the
    DOS detector catches this and prevents the
    attack. On every other input it is just an
    ordinary halt decider.

    Besides an operating system level halt decider
    this is the best halt decider than anyone can
    ever create.

    Huh? You never created any Kernel code or anything. No way. I would
    bet against it. Would I be wrong?

    [...]


    I wrote the entire x86utm operating system
    including cooperative multi-tasking so that
    HHH can simulate itself simulating DD to
    an arbitrary depth.


    Oh cool. Can I interface with it? Does it boot up into a prompt or
    something?
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  • From olcott@polcott333@gmail.com to comp.theory on Sun Oct 12 20:54:38 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/12/2025 8:36 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/12/2025 4:04 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/12/2025 6:01 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/11/2025 5:05 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/11/2025 1:49 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 9:26 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 9:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 6:26 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 8:07 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 7:49 PM, dart200 wrote:
    sure it computes /something/ but does that something allow >>>>>>>>>>> for any additional computation ability?

    no,

    and that's what he's failing to understand


    I am failing to understand nothing about this.
    I already showed that I understood the conventional
    halting problem is impossible 21 years ago.


    yeah you showed the same thing martin and kleene both did back >>>>>>>>> in 1952, and you haven't understood what turing shown in 1936 >>>>>>>>> (no one here does actually)


    That is possibly correct.

    but what ur not doing in spite of all of this is actually
    showing what we can /effectively compute/ with ur hypothesis. >>>>>>>>>

    Sure I am. HHH(DD) can effectively compute that it
    must abort its simulation of DD to prevent its own
    non-termination behavior.

    keyword being /effective/.

    doesn't matter that ur hypothesis produces *some* answer, it >>>>>>>>> needs to / effectively/ answer a question, and you haven't
    defined what that question is ...


    Do I need to abort the simulation of my input
    to prevent my own non-termination?

    when HHH decides on DD1 (which uses the HHH1 decider instead of >>>>>>> HHH), then it's not answering that fucking question now is it??? >>>>>>>
    the question it answers needs to be in regards to *all* the
    input, not just a particular DD input...

    so wtf is HHH computing then???


    It is computing: Do I need to abort this input
    to prevent my own non-termination?-a Yes means
    non-halting no means halting.

    and why do i care whether HHH(DD) needs to abort on the input? it
    doesn't mean the input is non-halting, as DD() run from anywhere
    but within HHH(DD) halts.


    If the input is a denial of service attack
    that targets a specific DOS detector the
    DOS detector catches this and prevents the
    attack. On every other input it is just an
    ordinary halt decider.

    Besides an operating system level halt decider
    this is the best halt decider than anyone can
    ever create.

    Huh? You never created any Kernel code or anything. No way. I would
    bet against it. Would I be wrong?

    [...]


    I wrote the entire x86utm operating system
    including cooperative multi-tasking so that
    HHH can simulate itself simulating DD to
    an arbitrary depth.


    Oh cool. Can I interface with it? Does it boot up into a prompt or something?

    It runs under Windows command line. It takes a
    COFF object file as input. It enables one C
    function to emulate the x86 code of another C
    function in Debug Step mode. This is how
    termination analyzer HHH works with DD input.

    https://github.com/plolcott/x86utm
    --
    Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
    hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Sun Oct 12 19:22:45 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/12/2025 6:54 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/12/2025 8:36 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/12/2025 4:04 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/12/2025 6:01 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/11/2025 5:05 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/11/2025 1:49 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 9:26 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 9:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 6:26 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 8:07 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 7:49 PM, dart200 wrote:
    sure it computes /something/ but does that something allow >>>>>>>>>>>> for any additional computation ability?

    no,

    and that's what he's failing to understand


    I am failing to understand nothing about this.
    I already showed that I understood the conventional
    halting problem is impossible 21 years ago.


    yeah you showed the same thing martin and kleene both did back >>>>>>>>>> in 1952, and you haven't understood what turing shown in 1936 >>>>>>>>>> (no one here does actually)


    That is possibly correct.

    but what ur not doing in spite of all of this is actually >>>>>>>>>> showing what we can /effectively compute/ with ur hypothesis. >>>>>>>>>>

    Sure I am. HHH(DD) can effectively compute that it
    must abort its simulation of DD to prevent its own
    non-termination behavior.

    keyword being /effective/.

    doesn't matter that ur hypothesis produces *some* answer, it >>>>>>>>>> needs to / effectively/ answer a question, and you haven't >>>>>>>>>> defined what that question is ...


    Do I need to abort the simulation of my input
    to prevent my own non-termination?

    when HHH decides on DD1 (which uses the HHH1 decider instead of >>>>>>>> HHH), then it's not answering that fucking question now is it??? >>>>>>>>
    the question it answers needs to be in regards to *all* the
    input, not just a particular DD input...

    so wtf is HHH computing then???


    It is computing: Do I need to abort this input
    to prevent my own non-termination?-a Yes means
    non-halting no means halting.

    and why do i care whether HHH(DD) needs to abort on the input? it >>>>>> doesn't mean the input is non-halting, as DD() run from anywhere
    but within HHH(DD) halts.


    If the input is a denial of service attack
    that targets a specific DOS detector the
    DOS detector catches this and prevents the
    attack. On every other input it is just an
    ordinary halt decider.

    Besides an operating system level halt decider
    this is the best halt decider than anyone can
    ever create.

    Huh? You never created any Kernel code or anything. No way. I would
    bet against it. Would I be wrong?

    [...]


    I wrote the entire x86utm operating system
    including cooperative multi-tasking so that
    HHH can simulate itself simulating DD to
    an arbitrary depth.


    Oh cool. Can I interface with it? Does it boot up into a prompt or
    something?

    It runs under Windows command line. It takes a
    COFF object file as input. It enables one C
    function to emulate the x86 code of another C
    function in Debug Step mode. This is how
    termination analyzer HHH works with DD input.

    https://github.com/plolcott/x86utm


    Strange. Why not make it take a C program as input, compile it, then it
    has all it needs? So, I can pass in any program to it and it will
    simulate and and tell me if it halts or not?
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  • From Chris M. Thomasson@chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com to comp.theory on Sun Oct 12 19:24:52 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.theory

    On 10/12/2025 7:22 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/12/2025 6:54 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/12/2025 8:36 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/12/2025 4:04 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/12/2025 6:01 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
    On 10/11/2025 5:05 AM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/11/2025 1:49 AM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 9:26 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 9:21 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 6:26 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 8:07 PM, dart200 wrote:
    On 10/10/25 5:52 PM, olcott wrote:
    On 10/10/2025 7:49 PM, dart200 wrote:
    sure it computes /something/ but does that something allow >>>>>>>>>>>>> for any additional computation ability?

    no,

    and that's what he's failing to understand


    I am failing to understand nothing about this.
    I already showed that I understood the conventional
    halting problem is impossible 21 years ago.


    yeah you showed the same thing martin and kleene both did >>>>>>>>>>> back in 1952, and you haven't understood what turing shown in >>>>>>>>>>> 1936 (no one here does actually)


    That is possibly correct.

    but what ur not doing in spite of all of this is actually >>>>>>>>>>> showing what we can /effectively compute/ with ur hypothesis. >>>>>>>>>>>

    Sure I am. HHH(DD) can effectively compute that it
    must abort its simulation of DD to prevent its own
    non-termination behavior.

    keyword being /effective/.

    doesn't matter that ur hypothesis produces *some* answer, it >>>>>>>>>>> needs to / effectively/ answer a question, and you haven't >>>>>>>>>>> defined what that question is ...


    Do I need to abort the simulation of my input
    to prevent my own non-termination?

    when HHH decides on DD1 (which uses the HHH1 decider instead of >>>>>>>>> HHH), then it's not answering that fucking question now is it??? >>>>>>>>>
    the question it answers needs to be in regards to *all* the >>>>>>>>> input, not just a particular DD input...

    so wtf is HHH computing then???


    It is computing: Do I need to abort this input
    to prevent my own non-termination?-a Yes means
    non-halting no means halting.

    and why do i care whether HHH(DD) needs to abort on the input? it >>>>>>> doesn't mean the input is non-halting, as DD() run from anywhere >>>>>>> but within HHH(DD) halts.


    If the input is a denial of service attack
    that targets a specific DOS detector the
    DOS detector catches this and prevents the
    attack. On every other input it is just an
    ordinary halt decider.

    Besides an operating system level halt decider
    this is the best halt decider than anyone can
    ever create.

    Huh? You never created any Kernel code or anything. No way. I would >>>>> bet against it. Would I be wrong?

    [...]


    I wrote the entire x86utm operating system
    including cooperative multi-tasking so that
    HHH can simulate itself simulating DD to
    an arbitrary depth.


    Oh cool. Can I interface with it? Does it boot up into a prompt or
    something?

    It runs under Windows command line. It takes a
    COFF object file as input. It enables one C
    function to emulate the x86 code of another C
    function in Debug Step mode. This is how
    termination analyzer HHH works with DD input.

    https://github.com/plolcott/x86utm


    Strange. Why not make it take a C program as input, compile it, then it
    has all it needs? So, I can pass in any program to it and it will
    simulate and and tell me if it halts or not?

    It would be cool if I could pass it C code, or an exe. Then you magic
    will tell me if it halts or not... :^)
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