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Posted on Jun 19, 2024

The Halting Problem

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This is a submission for DEV Computer Science Challenge v24.06.12: One Byte Explainer.

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Can a program determine if another program will finish running or loop forever? It's the Halting Problem. Alan Turing proved it's undecidable: no algorithm can solve it for all possible programs. This limits what computers can predict about other programs.

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