Terminology gap

Mar 22, 2016 09:53


Yesterday in a technical conversation I used the phrase ‘HP-complete’.

I had intended it, by analogy with ‘NP-complete’, to mean that if the problem under discussion could be solved, the solution would necessarily include a solution to the Halting Problem, i.e. the problem was as hard as the Halting Problem, i.e. uncomputable.

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writinghawk March 25 2016, 07:36:21 UTC
One could imagine subdomains in which the Halting Problem is soluble, so 'uncomputable' is not an exact synonym.

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