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Undecidable unary languages (also known as Tally languages)
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Problem
An exercise that was in a past session is the following:
Prove that there exists an undecidable subset of $\{1\}^*$
This exercise looks very strange to me, because I think that all subsets are decidable.
Is there a topic that I should read to find a possible answer?
Prove that there exists an undecidable subset of $\{1\}^*$
This exercise looks very strange to me, because I think that all subsets are decidable.
Is there a topic that I should read to find a possible answer?
Solution
Note that $\{1\}^$ is isomorphic to $\Bbb N$. There are uncountably many subsets of both $\{1\}^$ and $\Bbb N$.
Perhaps you are confused with the fact that there are only countably many finite subsets of $\{1\}^*$ (and $\Bbb N$).
Perhaps you are confused with the fact that there are only countably many finite subsets of $\{1\}^*$ (and $\Bbb N$).
Context
StackExchange Computer Science Q#19329, answer score: 6
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