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From: Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi>
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Subject: Re: How do computations actually work?
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 10:50:49 +0300
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On 2025-05-29 08:43:02 +0000, Richard Heathfield said:

> On 29/05/2025 08:59, Mikko wrote:
>> The usual meaning of halting is reaching a state where the
>> computation cannot be computed.
> 
> So if the computation /can/ be computed and /has/ been computed, you 
> don't halt?

Yes, if I have already halted then I don't and needn't halt again.

> Surely that can't be what you meant to say?

I meant cannot be computed further.

-- 
Mikko