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|    olcott to tTh    |
|    Re: The halting problem is self-contradi    |
|    15 Oct 25 10:10:47    |
   
   XPost: comp.lang.c++   
   From: polcott333@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/15/2025 9:50 AM, tTh wrote:   
   > On 10/15/25 14:32, olcott wrote:   
   >   
   >> Here is that full proof.   
   >> https://chatgpt.com/share/68eef2df-0f10-8011-8e92-264651cc518c   
   >   
   > Can you take those insanity out of comp.lang.c ?   
   >   
      
   I just needed a couple of cross posts.   
   Here is how it is related to C/C++   
      
      
      
   Please think this all the way through without making any guesses   
      
   Simulating Termination Analyzer HHH correctly simulates its input until:   
   (a) Detects a non-terminating behavior pattern:   
    abort simulation and return 0.   
   (b) Simulated input reaches its simulated "return" statement:   
    return 1.   
   (c) If HHH must abort its simulation to prevent its own non-termination   
    then HHH is correct to abort this simulation and return 0.   
      
   typedef int (*ptr)();   
   int HHH(ptr P);   
      
   int DD()   
   {   
    int Halt_Status = HHH(DD);   
    if (Halt_Status)   
    HERE: goto HERE;   
    return Halt_Status;   
   }   
      
   int main()   
   {   
    HHH(DD);   
   }   
      
   What value should HHH(DD) correctly return?   
      
      
   ChatGPT 4.0, Claude AI, ChatGPT 5.0, Grok and Gemini   
   all agreed that HHH(DD) should reject its input as   
   non-halting by returning 0. They also all were able   
   to provide the details of their reasoning for deriving   
   this conclusion.   
      
    ChatGPT paraphrase of my own words that it proves   
    are correct by its own reasoning.   
      
    "The halting problem, as classically formulated, relies   
    on an inferential step that is not justified by a   
    continuous chain of semantic entailment from its initial   
    stipulations."   
      
    https://chatgpt.com/share/68ef97b5-6770-8011-9aad-323009ca7841   
      
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