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What is the halting problem?

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The problem of determining whether a given program will terminate or run forever.
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The halting problem is a fundamental problem in computer science that asks whether there is an algorithm that can determine whether a given program will terminate or run forever. It is undecidable, meaning that there is no such algorithm.

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