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From: olcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Every sufficiently competent C programmer knows --- Very Stupid
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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:35:07 -0500
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On 3/13/2025 2:20 PM, Fred. Zwarts wrote:
> Op 13.mrt.2025 om 14:41 schreef olcott:
>> On 3/13/2025 6:18 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
>>> In article <vqud4e$36e14$3@dont-email.me>,
>>> Fred. Zwarts <F.Zwarts@HetNet.nl> wrote:
>>>> Op 12.mrt.2025 om 16:31 schreef olcott:
>>>>> [snip]
>>>>> When N steps of DDD are correctly emulated by every element
>>>>> of the set of C functions named HHH that do x86 emulation and
>>>>>
>>>>> N is each element of the set of natural numbers
>>>>>
>>>>> then no DDD of the set of HHH/DDD pairs ever reaches its
>>>>> "return" instruction and terminates normally.
>>>>
>>>> In other words no HHH of the set of HHH/DDD pairs ever succeeds to
>>>> complete the simulation of a halting program. Failure to reach the end
>>>> of a halting program is not a great success. If all HHH in this set
>>>> fail, it would be better to change your mind and start working on
>>>> something more useful.
>>>
>>> He seems to think that he's written a program that detects that
>>> his thing hasn't 'reached its "return" instruction and
>>> terminate[d] normally', given some number of steps, where that
>>> number is ... the cardinality of the natural numbers.
>>>
>>> I wonder if he knows that the set of natural numbers is
>>> infintite, though I suspect he'd say something like, "but it's
>>> countable!"  To which I'd surmise that he has no idea what that
>>> means.
>>>
>>
>> void DDD()
>> {
>>    HHH(DDD);
>>    return;
>> }
>>
>> Everyone here knows that when N steps of DDD are correctly
>> simulated by HHH that DDD never reaches its own "return"
>> instruction and terminates normally thus never halts.
> 
> 
> Why would we be interested in your simulator that is not able to reach 
> the end of the program described in its input when direct execution and 
> world-class simulators are perfectly able to reach that end of exactly 
> the same input?

I am going to ignore all of your nonsense posts.

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