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wrongs.

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Briefly elaborate please.

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The Halting problem, first demonstrated by Alan Turing, is an undecidable decision problem. There's a bunch of math to it, if you want me to go into it.

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eek. no math. you=l33t

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Question 3: What is the name of 1 of the 2 most common NP-Complete Problems in Computer Science?

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Hooray for me!

I think the answer to the next one is 3-SAT.

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Nope, sorry.

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Could it possibly be the Hamilton Cycle then?

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Close enough.

The two I had in mind were the Hamilton Problem and the Satisfiability Problem.

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Ah. That one I didn't know, so I was just reading through results from search engines. Those NP-Complete problems are some pretty complicated stuff

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Q4: A few weeks ago the University of Tennessee Lady Vols basketball team played the UofI Illini Girls basketball team. Who won the game and what was the score?

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They won vs. Illinois at a score of 111-62

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yay!

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The Halting Problem (or the one I found) asks for a way to determine in advance whether a program will halt or not.

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oh my gosh.. more American sport, this is looking like an entirely useless thread.

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Oh, excuse the hell out of me. From now on I'll only ask about foreign sports.

Q6: What is it called when all the players on the field gather into a huddle in Rugby?

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Touching time?

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Did I mention I know nothing about Rugby?

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Originally posted by Orange:
Touching time?

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Orange, keep your private sports just that .... private.



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I agree wholeheartedly with you. d00d! I typed this with my eyes closed!

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A scrum, actually.

Dammit, does it always have to be a sport I either know nothing about or everything about? =P

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quote:

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Q6: What is it called when all the players on the field gather into a huddle in Rugby?

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