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From: olcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Every sufficiently competent C programmer knows --- Truthmaker
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On 3/15/2025 5:54 AM, joes wrote:
> Am Fri, 14 Mar 2025 18:28:24 -0500 schrieb olcott:
>> On 3/14/2025 1:01 PM, dbush wrote:
>>> On 3/14/2025 1:19 PM, olcott wrote:
>>>> On 3/14/2025 11:58 AM, wij wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 2025-03-14 at 11:33 -0500, olcott wrote:
>>>>>> On 3/14/2025 11:01 AM, wij wrote:
>>>>>>> On Fri, 2025-03-14 at 10:51 -0500, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 3/14/2025 10:04 AM, wij wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Fri, 2025-03-14 at 09:35 -0500, olcott wrote:
> 
>>>>>>> Are you solving The Halting Problem or not? Yes or No.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have only correctly refuted the conventional halting problem
>>>>>> proof. Actually solving the halting problem requires a program that
>>>>>> is ALL KNOWING thus God like.
>>>>>
>>>>> I (GUR) had told you God cannot solve HP neither (maybe because the
>>>>> problem is limited in a box)
>>>>>
>>>> When we define the HP as having H return a value corresponding to the
>>>> halting behavior of input D and input D can actually does the opposite
>>>> of whatever value that H returns, then we have boxed ourselves in to a
>>>> problem having no solution.
>>>>
>>> And that is EXACTLY what the halting problem is about: it is not
>>> possible to construct an H where H(X,Y) reports whether X(Y) halts when
>>> executed directly.
>>> A problem that you have now EXPLICITLY agreed is unsolvable.  So...
>>>
>> Likewise:
>> What time is it (yes or no)? equally has no solution.
>> That BOGUS problem instances have no solution places no actual limit on
>> anything.

> It places a limit on deciding termination.
> 

In the same way that random gibberish
X = "jsdrgg4598w&*T*^&%#4rjbkbdsvd"
places a limit on a True(X) predicate.

>> I coined the term "incorrect question" years ago.
>> https://groups.google.com/g/sci.lang/c/lSdYexJ0ozo/m/aDN9-TYLHwIJ
> (x) doubt


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