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Database System Concepts

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Author:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

Publisher:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

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Given a Java program p and the input 0, consider the problem, “Does p ever output anything?”

(2) There is a decision procedure for the problem. If your answer is true, try to describe the procedure in English or pseudocode for learning purposes.

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Step 1: Introduce the halting problem:

The Halting Problem is a fundamental concept in computer science and mathematics that deals with the impossibility of creating a universal algorithm to predict whether an arbitrary program will halt (terminate) or run indefinitely. Proposed by Alan Turing in the 1930s, this problem has profound implications for the limits of computation and the understanding of algorithmic behavior, highlighting the existence of undecidable problems in the field of computation. It serves as a cornerstone in the theory of computability and has applications in various areas of computer science and formal logic.

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