Lesson 28: What cannot be computed
Outline:
- Questions?
- Review: “easy” problems
- searching: algorithms and runtimes
- sorting: algorithms and runtimes
- “Hard” problems
- review: Bin Packing and Knapsack
- another intractable problem: Towers of Hanoi
- an unsolvable problem: The Halting Problem
Reading assignment (to be completed before the final):
- Zelle sections 14.4–14.5 (pp. 498–508)