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I believe the Entscheidungsproblem was first proved unsolvable by Church, and months later by Turing. Goedel's theorems don't really talk about algorithms, so they don't directly apply. Of course, Goedel's trick of Goedel numbering and the Barber paradox is really the key to the Entscheidungsproblem and halting problem, everything else is details. --AxelBoldt

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I don't understand this idea. What does it mean to decide a language? [[User:Unfree|Unfree]] ([[User talk:Unfree|talk]]) 16:32, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

:To decide whether a given string is in the language or not. --[[User:Trovatore|Trovatore]] ([[User talk:Trovatore|talk]]) 20:11, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

== Attempt to merge ==

For anyone keeping this article on their watchlist: there is currently an attempt at merging a number of articles on (non-)recursive/(un)decidable/(un)computable sets/languages/decision problems into a single, thorough article. The experiment currently sits at [[Recursive languages and sets]]. Comments are very welcome. [[User:Pichpich|Pichpich]] ([[User talk:Pichpich|talk]]) 00:43, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

== A paradoxical situation ==

This is a duplicate post from [[Talk:Algorithm#A_paradoxical_situation]]. To keep the discussion in one place, please comment there is you are interested. &mdash;&nbsp;Carl <small>([[User:CBM|CBM]]&nbsp;·&nbsp;[[User talk:CBM|talk]])</small> 20:43, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

== Reorganize the Computability articles ==

There is a discussion currently at [[Talk:Recursion theory#Reorganize the Computability articles]] about reorganising the computability articles to get some sort of hierarchy. In particular the thinking is that [[Computability]] should be an introduction rather than a disambiguation page. [[User:Dmcq|Dmcq]] ([[User talk:Dmcq|talk]]) 11:26, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

:The reorganization is underway. The centralized discussion is at [[Talk:Recursion theory#Reorganize the Computability articles]]. &mdash;&nbsp;Carl <small>([[User:CBM|CBM]]&nbsp;·&nbsp;[[User talk:CBM|talk]])</small> 14:52, 22 August 2009 (UTC)