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Defining the halting problem for non-deterministic automata

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Command line extraction of metadata (title. author) from epub file

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What is the difference between translation and rotation?

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To what extent can the mathematics of Reals be applied to Computable Reals?

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Checking a file contains only null bytes

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Can one use two Amazon accounts on one Kindle?

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What really makes adverbs different from adjectives?

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The halting problem in computational models weaker than Turing machines

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What is finitistic reasoning?

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What is the origin of spin of celestial objects?

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