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> They're referring to the halting problem. If you believe you can solve it, you will win money.

Proving that you can programatically determine whether a program halts when you limit the turing machine to finite memory is trivial - which the conversation you interjected was about.



They weren't saying the problem was trivial. They were saying that if you massively reduce the problem to its most trivial form, then its trivial form is doable.


> They weren't saying the problem was trivial.

Neither was I? The proof is trivial - actually doing it is very much not.


How would you prove it in the non-trivial case?


What? Are you trolling?


I've no idea what you're talking about. If you ask a non-content free question I can help.




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