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From: Tim Cook
Date: 10 Oct 2010 20:34:30
Message: <4cb25b96@news.povray.org>

On 2010-10-07 09:43, Invisible wrote:
> Ah yes, it is impossible to write a computer program that can analyse
> any possible computer program and tell you whether it halts in a finite
> number of steps.

How does a person go about deciding the same problem?  Or is that 
impossible, too?

-- 
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.freesitespace.net

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