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The Computer Journal 1984 27(4):376; doi:10.1093/comjnl/27.4.376
© 1984 by British Computer Society
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The Halting Problem Does Not Matter

A. Hutchinson *

Department of Computation, U.M.I.S.T., Sackville Street, Manchester, UK

Suppose that P is a program whose set of acceptable data accept(P) is recursive. Then there is another program P' with the same acceptable data, which cannot loop, and which behaves like P for all input data in accept(P).


* Department of Computation, U.M.I.S.T., Sackville Street, Manchester, UK


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