Undecidable
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Undecidable may refer to:

In mathematics and logic
  • Undecidable problem
    Undecidable problem
    In computability theory and computational complexity theory, an undecidable problem is a decision problem for which it is impossible to construct a single algorithm that always leads to a correct yes-or-no answer....

     - a decision problem which no algorithm can decide
  • "Undecidable" is sometimes used as a synonym of "independent
    Independence (mathematical logic)
    In mathematical logic, independence refers to the unprovability of a sentence from other sentences.A sentence σ is independent of a given first-order theory T if T neither proves nor refutes σ; that is, it is impossible to prove σ from T, and it is also impossible to prove from T that...

    ", where a formula in mathematical logic is independent of a logical theory if neither that formula nor its negation can be proved within the theory


Other uses
  • Undecidable figure
  • Undecidable language
  • Undecidable set


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