Machine that always halts
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In computability theory, a machine that always halts — also called a decider (Sipser, 1996) or a total Turing machine (Kozen, 1997) — is a Turing machine that halts for every input.
Description
Because it always halts, the machine is able to decide whether a given string is a member of a formal language.
The class of languages which can be decided by such machines is exactly the set of recursive languages.
However, due to the Halting problem, determining whether an arbitrary Turing machine halts on every input is itself an undecidable decision problem.
See also
- BlooP and FlooP
- Computability theory
- Decision problem
- Halting problem
- Recursive language
- Total functional programming
- Turing machine
- Undecidable problem
External links
- Machine that always halts @ Wikipedia
