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From: dbush <dbush.mobile@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Every sufficiently competent C programmer knows --- Very Stupid
 Mistake and Liars
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 22:18:44 -0400
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On 3/11/2025 10:06 PM, olcott wrote:
> On 3/11/2025 9:02 PM, dbush wrote:
>> On 3/11/2025 9:41 PM, Richard Heathfield wrote:
>>> On 12/03/2025 01:22, olcott wrote:
>>>> DDD correctly simulated by HHH never reaches its
>>>> own "return" instruction and terminates normally
>>>> in any finite or infinite number of correctly
>>>> simulated steps.
>>>
>>> If it correctly simulates infinitely many steps, it doesn't 
>>> terminate. Look up "infinite".
>>>
>>> But your task is to decide for /any/ program, not just DDD. That, as 
>>> you are so fond of saying, is 'stipulated', and you can't get out of 
>>> it. The whole point of the Entscheidungsproblem is its universality. 
>>> Ignore that, and you have nothing.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Given that his code has HHH(DD) returning 0, 
> 
> THESE ARE THE WORDS ANYONE THAT DODGES THESE
> WORDS WILL BE TAKEN FOR A LIAR
> 
> void DDD()
> {
>    HHH(DDD);
>    return;
> }
> 
> DDD correctly simulated by HHH never reaches its
> own "return" instruction and terminates normally
> in any finite or infinite number of correctly
> simulated steps.
> 

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