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Re:How has mathematics gotten so abstract? by zozbot234 on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @05:14AM (#45435781)
Everyone agrees that you can't write an algorithm for a Turing machine (or computational equivalent) that decides the Halting problem for Turing machines in every case. Since this is explicitly worded as "you can't write an algorithm for..." it's in fact talking about a kind of constructive existence and saying that it doesn't apply. The oracle concept is normally phrased about "If we magically had a way to decide this undecidable problem in every case" but it's real utility from a constructive POV is talking about special cases that you haven't bothered to narrow down just yet.

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