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halting problem
Is there an algorithm to determine whether any arbitrary program halts? Turing proved the answer is, no. Since many questions can be recast to this problem, we can conclude that some programs are absolutely impossible, although heuristic or partial solutions are possible.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Computer science
- Category: Algorithms & data structures
- Government Agency: NIST
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