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Undecidable decision problem

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A decision problem for which no algorithm terminates with the correct yes-or-no answer on every input. For example, if the diagonal halting set had a decision algorithm, a program could halt on its own code exactly when that algorithm says it does not halt, producing a contradiction. An undecidable decision problem may still admit a partial procedure that terminates on every yes-instance.

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