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Re: Halting Undecidability proof faulty?

alexander, i have no doubt that you could write an algorithm that determines whether a particular program will halt, and may even work for 10,000 algorithms. but there will always be a 10,001 algorithm that it doesn't work for.

for example so far i've posted code that the human brain could easily determine would halt or not, but i could just as easily post code that even i couldn't read and determine whether or not it halts, even after running through the loop a few times.
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