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|    Very simple first principles showing the    |
|    11 Dec 25 08:42:41    |
      XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic, sci.math       From: polcott333@gmail.com              On 12/11/2025 3:00 AM, Mikko wrote:       > olcott kirjoitti 10.12.2025 klo 15.04:       >> On 12/10/2025 3:43 AM, Mikko wrote:       >>> polcott kirjoitti 10.12.2025 klo 0.27:       >>>> These are finally the long sought words that do       >>>> resolve the halting problem to a category error.       >>>       >>>> Turing machine deciders only compute the mapping from       >>>> their [finite string] inputs to an accept or reject       >>>> state on the basis that this [finite string] input       >>>> specifies or fails to specify a particular semantic       >>>> or syntactic property.       >>>       >>> The above paragraph (acutally just one sentence) does not prove or       >>> even say anything about the halting problem.       >>       >> It is the definition of a decider that the halting       >> problem violates.       >       > Nothing in the problem statement violates any definition. You can't       > even quote the alleged "violation".       >              *It has taken me 21 years to derive these first principles*              When the halting problem requires a halt decider       to report on the behavior of a Turing machine this       is always a category error because Turing machines       only take finite string inputs.              The corrected halting problem requires a Turing       machine decider to report in the behavior that       its finite string input specifies.                     --       Copyright 2025 Olcott |
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