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Turing Machines & Undecidability

 
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Mar12-12, 08:07 AM   #1
 

Turing Machines & Undecidability


1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data

I have a question regarding undecidable languages.
Let L1 = { M | M is an encoding of a Turing machine that accepts any input} and L2 = { M | M is an Turing machine with at most 100 states}. Is L1 intersect L2 decidable?

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I think L1 is undeciable and L2 is decidable. Since we can have a many-to-1 reduction from halting to L1 and for L2, we can count the number of states in some encoding. And I guess L1 intersect L2 is still undecidable but I can't find a reduction to any undecidable problems.

Any help will be appreciated!
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Mar13-12, 05:00 PM   #2
 
What do you mean by undecible language, the chomsky hiearchy for languages is given as follows: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy.
Mar13-12, 08:15 PM   #3
 
I mean partially decidable or recursively enumerable.
Mar14-12, 04:45 AM   #4
 

Turing Machines & Undecidability


Aren't they both regular?
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