POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Back to the future : Re: Back to the future [~200KBbu] Server Time
11 Oct 2024 01:22:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Back to the future [~200KBbu]  
From: Invisible
Date: 30 Jul 2008 03:52:44
Message: <48901dcc$1@news.povray.org>
>> Unless quantum computing ever works some day, and it turns out to have 
>> _fundamentally_ different capabilities, the halting problem will never 
>> be solved.
> 
> Quantum computing (today) doesn't even solve NP problems in P time, let 
> alone non-computable problems. :-)

But you get what I'm saying. Maybe there is some fundamentally new 
system that changes the rules, so to speak.

Even if such a system were to exist, you would still have a new, 
generalised Halting Problem, and you're back to square one.

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