I was thinking of adding a link to the general theorem which says that practically no non-trivial question about
the behavior of Turing machines can be decided, but I forgot the name of it. Anybody knows? --
AxelBoldt
Sure, it's Rice's Theorem. --
AV
Two things are missing from the article but I don't have time right now:
- The functions that Turing machines define are only partial because TM's need not halt.
- Link to recursive functions, recursive and recursively enumerable languages. --AxelBoldt