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Puzzled
Will my algorithm terminate?

Published: 01 February 2009 Publication History

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Welcome to three new challenging mathematical puzzles. Solutions to the first two will be published next month; the third is as yet unsolved. In them all, I concentrate on algorithm termination, outlining some simple procedures and asking whether they always terminate or might possibly run forever.

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    cover image Communications of the ACM
    Communications of the ACM  Volume 52, Issue 2
    Inspiring Women in Computing
    February 2009
    127 pages
    ISSN:0001-0782
    EISSN:1557-7317
    DOI:10.1145/1461928
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    Published: 01 February 2009
    Published in CACM Volume 52, Issue 2

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