Halting

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halting

Title text: You can also solve the Goldbach Conjecture, for the special case of only considering numbers arising before you beat the machine with a stick.

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The halting problem is easy to solve. If the program runs too long, I take this stick and beat the computer until it stops.

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Caption: What if Alan Turing had been an engineer?

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But what happens if you try to make the program beat *itself* with a stick?

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