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Comment author: ThisSpaceAvailable 23 January 2014 02:23:38AM 1 point [-]

To solve any decision problem P with the Halting oracle, we can reformulate it as program source code: "if P, then halt; otherwise: loop forever" and feed this program to the Halting oracle.

Is "computable" understood as being implicit in the term "decision problem P"?

Comment author: gedymin 23 January 2014 11:44:35AM 0 points [-]

Yes.