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Ilia Zaichuk Thanks for the edit! I made a couple of linguistic changes, and made the "uniqueness of " a bit less compact.

Ilia Zaichuk: I've made the appropriate changes to the markup to make text display in MathJax (which is the LaTeX-syntax markup language used for maths on this site and on Stack Exchange). However, I think it's a bug in Arbital (which I've just pointed out to the developers) that it's not rendering correctly. (EDIT: I've altered the markup into a form that works around the bug. It just makes the markup look a bit less nice.)

In general, you can use \text{text here}; if you want to put maths inline with the text here, you can use dollar signs:

 \text{Heinz $57$ Varieties}

Additionally, if you have a mathematical string you want to typeset, like "sin", you can use \mathrm{sin} which shows up as . (It so happens that there is already a built-in symbol that does that for sin: \sin.)

This is not universally agreed-upon, but I use " decides whether or not holds" to mean " outputs if holds, and outputs otherwise".

If I said " decides if holds", I would consider that ambiguous: it might mean " outputs if holds" without the requirement on 's behaviour if doesn't hold.

The non-existence of a total order on is fun and interesting, I think, and also not very difficult. An excellent exercise in proof by contradiction.

I think the answer is no. Indeed, there are uncountably many , but only countably many machines which can access oracles.

Surely they are equivalent. Given a Rice-deciding oracle, we can ask the oracle, "Does the partial function defined by machine specify where input should go?"; that determines whether halts on input or not.

I think the halting problem probably should have its own page, rather than being linked to the umbrella uncomputability page.

Simply that I didn't know the name :) I'll edit it in.

Thanks: quite correct.

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