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Comment author: Nornagest 29 May 2013 04:37:56AM *  1 point [-]

For that matter, it's perfectly possible to build algorithms that can accurately tell you whether or not some systems will halt -- certain types of infinite loop are easily machine-detectable, to give one simple example. It's doing it in the general case that's impossible.