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Re: Simulating halt decider H correctly decides halt status of pathological inputs (V2)

From Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.theory
Subject Re: Simulating halt decider H correctly decides halt status of pathological inputs (V2)
Date 2021-07-18 03:39 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <8735scl50x.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink)
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olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> writes:

> // Based on: Strachey(1965) "An impossible program"
> // https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/7.4.313
> void P(u32 x)
> {
>   if (H(x, x))
>     HERE: goto HERE;
> }
>
> int main()
> {
>   Output("Input_Halts = ", P((u32)P);
> }

P(P) halts (according to you).  H(P,P) == 0 (according to you).  This is
wrong (according to everyone /but/ you).

> *Stipulated Definition of Halting*
> An input to a halt decider is defined to halt if and only if this
> input stops running while simulating halt decider H remains a pure
> simulator of this input.

Why do you think anyone else cares about this silly definition?

-- 
Ben.

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Simulating halt decider H correctly decides halt status of pathological inputs (V2) olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2021-07-17 16:07 -0500
  Re: Simulating halt decider H correctly decides halt status of pathological inputs (V2) Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-07-18 03:39 +0100
    Re: Simulating halt decider H correctly decides halt status of pathological inputs (V2) olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2021-07-19 09:50 -0500
      Re: Simulating halt decider H correctly decides halt status of pathological inputs (V2) Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-07-20 01:35 +0100
        Re: Simulating halt decider H correctly decides halt status of pathological inputs (V2) olcott <NoOne@NoWhere.com> - 2021-07-20 09:11 -0500
          Re: Simulating halt decider H correctly decides halt status of pathological inputs (V2) Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2021-07-20 11:32 -0700
          Re: Simulating halt decider H correctly decides halt status of pathological inputs (V2) Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-07-21 01:28 +0100

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