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Does Provable == Decidable?

In computation theory are the terms Provable and Decidable interchangable? Do they mean the same thing? For example you often see the question whether something is provable referred to as a decision problem (Das Entscheidungsproblem). ...

Key points and Importance of Decidability

A language is decidable If a TM recognises the language and goes into an Accept or Reject state. As a dev. I think this is important as it would mean we could determine if a program contains buffer overflows or deadlocks. Also, the following problems are Un-Decidable: Does a program ever access an uninitialized variable. Do two cont...

How Arbitrary is the Representation of a Turing Machine?

Hello all, I'm working on a related decidability/recognizable problem, and to solve it, I need clarification about the encoding/representation of a turing machine. I know a turing machine is formally defined as a 7-tuple. If I have a Turing Machine U and another Turing Machine M, is it trivial to design U to recognize some part of M (...