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While halting problem can't be solved, you can solve the problem by saying all programs must terminate within 20min and program must scale with input length.

And/Or you can forbid sleep and similar nop functions.

And/Or you can sit down and analyze the code.

Truth be told, it makes for a very boring competition, but a very useful exercise.




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