The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder
April 16, 2025
It's a justifiable copout, but it's still a copout.
Short one this time because I have a lot going on this week.
In computation complexity, NP is the class of all decision problems (yes/no) where a potential proof (or "witness") for "yes" can be verified in polynomial time. For example, "does this set of numbers have a subset that sums to zero" is in NP. If the answer is "yes", you can prove it by presenting a set of numbers. We would then verify the witness by 1) checking that al...
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