https://wiki.bbchallenge.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Quasihalt Quasihalt - Revision history 2026-04-30T21:56:46Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.5 https://wiki.bbchallenge.org/w/index.php?title=Quasihalt&diff=369&oldid=prev Hsjoihs: Created page with "A program is called '''quasihalting''' if it has any states which are reached no more than a fixed number of times during the course of a computation.<ref>https://www.sligocki.com/2021/03/06/beeping-busy-beaver/</ref> A machine is said to '''quasihalt''' when it ''enters'' a cycle of behavior in which it does not visit all machine states.<ref>https://nickdrozd.github.io/2020/10/08/quasihalting-behavior.html</ref><ref>https://discord.com/channels/960643023006490684/10265..." 2024-07-10T13:26:39Z <p>Created page with &quot;A program is called &#039;&#039;&#039;quasihalting&#039;&#039;&#039; if it has any states which are reached no more than a fixed number of times during the course of a computation.&lt;ref&gt;https://www.sligocki.com/2021/03/06/beeping-busy-beaver/&lt;/ref&gt; A machine is said to &#039;&#039;&#039;quasihalt&#039;&#039;&#039; when it &#039;&#039;enters&#039;&#039; a cycle of behavior in which it does not visit all machine states.&lt;ref&gt;https://nickdrozd.github.io/2020/10/08/quasihalting-behavior.html&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;https://discord.com/channels/960643023006490684/10265...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>A program is called &#039;&#039;&#039;quasihalting&#039;&#039;&#039; if it has any states which are reached no more than a fixed number of times during the course of a computation.&lt;ref&gt;https://www.sligocki.com/2021/03/06/beeping-busy-beaver/&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> A machine is said to &#039;&#039;&#039;quasihalt&#039;&#039;&#039; when it &#039;&#039;enters&#039;&#039; a cycle of behavior in which it does not visit all machine states.&lt;ref&gt;https://nickdrozd.github.io/2020/10/08/quasihalting-behavior.html&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;https://discord.com/channels/960643023006490684/1026577255754903572/1034531129941819493&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;https://discord.com/channels/960643023006490684/1026577255754903572/1034531417742385263&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> == Relationship with Beeping Busy Beavers ==<br /> <br /> By introducing the concept of quasihalting, it becomes succinct and straightforward to define the [[Beeping Busy Beaver]] problem: &quot;the Beeping Busy Beaver problem is to find the TM which runs longest before quasihalting.&quot;&lt;ref&gt;https://www.sligocki.com/2021/03/06/beeping-busy-beaver/&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> == References ==</div> Hsjoihs