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The property (of a problem or difficulty) that makes it impossible to solve.

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  • In particular, he proved the unsolvability of the halting problem.
  • But she is one of the most explicit in noting its obscenity, its terribleness as well as its almost comedic unsolvability.
  • If one takes the uncertainty principle as a primitive and the unsolvability of the many-body problem as a given, it seems to me that microscopic irreversibility follows...
  • Instead of referring to the "apparent unsolvability" of a choice between the quarto and the folio texts — and claiming that it is a "damaging ... breach" in "literary...
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