Question 140Asked in BPSC TRE 3.0 (2024) Computer Science Class 11-12

What is the computational complexity of the halting problem?

  1. AO(1)
  2. BO(n)
  3. CNot computable
  4. DMore than one of the above
  5. ENone of the above
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Correct answer: (C) Not computable

Explanation

Turing proved the halting problem is undecidable: no algorithm can decide for every program and input whether it halts. So it has no computational complexity; it is not computable.

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