Sentence examples for halting problem from inspiring English sources
noun
The problem of deciding in finite time whether any program will finish running in finite time, when given a certain finite input.
But the halting problem, it turned out, was merely the decision problem in disguise.
The unsolvability of the halting problem has immediate practical bearing on software development.
Computability: Sizes of infinity; finite automata and regular languages; Turing machines; the Halting Problem; Busy Beaver numbers; Kolmogorov complexity.
Elementary computability theory: enumeration and recursion theorems, the halting problem, relative computability, Turing degrees, and basic priority constructions.
It is impossible to even know if your raytracer will finish tracing it due to the halting problem.
Essentially, any such proposition leads to a determination procedure that never ends (a condition known as the halting problem).
"They simply can't see the grid!" laments Clark Gelling of the EPRI.Even if operators had smart sensors throughout the system, they could do little to halt problems from spreading, because they lack suitable control systems.
Despite government pledges to halt the problem, projections for 2009 show this figure will to rise to 4.1m, when the sharp fuel price increases of 2008 are fully reflected.
Unless halted, the problem is estimated to mean a loss of $4 billion in tax receipts over the next ten years.The FTC'S recommendations may place too much emphasis on overturning bad patents already awarded, and so shift too much of the burden to the courts, rather than do more to prevent poor awards in the first place, which is the Patent Office's job.
The Times's article said the documents showed that despite the evidence of profiling in 1996, senior state police commanders rejected aggressive measures to halt the problem, instead pursuing a strategy of limiting the information provided to federal civil rights prosecutors.
