The Halting Problem - An Impossible Problem to Solve

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Alan Turing proved that the Halting Problem was impossible for Turing machines (computers) to solve. Come find out how.

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https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdf
http://index-of.co.uk/Theory-of-Computation/Charles_Petzold-Annotated_Turing-Wiley(2008).pdf
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