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The '''Davis–Putnam algorithm''' was developed by [[Martin Davis]] and [[Hilary Putnam]] for checking the validity of a [[first-order logic]] formula. It is known that there exist no [[decision procedure]] for this task. Therefore the Davis–Putnam ''procedure'' does not terminate on some inputs.