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On 5/28/2025 4:44 PM, olcott wrote:
> On 5/28/2025 3:28 PM, dbush wrote:
>> On 5/28/2025 4:24 PM, olcott wrote:
>>> On 5/28/2025 3:13 PM, dbush wrote:
>>>> On 5/28/2025 11:17 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>> When you require sum(3,4) to report on the sum of 5 + 6
>>>>> YOU ARE WRONG. When you require HHH to report on the
>>>>> behavior of its caller YOU ARE WRONG.
>>>>
>>>> But I want to know what it's caller does.
>>>>
>>>> In fact, I want to know if any arbitrary algorithm X with input Y 
>>>> will halt when executed directly.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It is completely impossible to know with 100%
>>> perfectly complete logical certainty that five
>>> minutes ago ever exists.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> That doesn't change the fact that I want to know if any arbitrary 
>> algorithm X with input Y will halt when executed directly.
>>
> 
> That is *not* the way that reality actually works.
> 

But I want to know if any arbitrary algorithm X with input Y will halt 
when executed directly.

It would be *very* useful to me if I had an algorithm H that could tell 
me that in *all* possible cases.  If so, I could solve the Goldbach 
conjecture, among many other unsolved problems.

Does an algorithm H exist that can tell me that or not?