Re: Unpartial Halt Deciders

On 4/18/2025 2:32 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:

Mr Flibble <flibble@red-dwarf.jmc.corp> writes:

On Fri, 18 Apr 2025 12:25:36 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:

Mr Flibble <flibble@red-dwarf.jmc.corp> writes:

I, aka Mr Flibble, have created a new computer science term, the
"Unpartial Halt Decider".  It is a Halt Decider over the domain of all
program-input pairs excluding pathological input (a manifestation of
the self referencial category error).

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Do you have a rigorous definition of "pathological input"?
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Is there an algorithm to determine whether a given input is
"pathological" or not?
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I could define an is_prime() function like this:
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     bool is_prime(int n) {
         return n >= 3 && n % 2 == 1;
         // returns true for odd numbers >= 3, false for all others
     }
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I'll just say that odd numbers that are not prime are pathological
input, so I don't have to deal with them.

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Pathological input:
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Self-referencial to the decider.

 OK.
 Do you have a *rigorous* definition of "pathological input"?
 Is there an algorithm to determine whether a given input is
"pathological" or not?
 

int DD()
{
   int Halt_Status = HHH(DD);
   if (Halt_Status)
     HERE: goto HERE;
   return Halt_Status;
}
Patterns isomorphic to the above when simulated by HHH.
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