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From: olcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Halting Problem: What Constitutes Pathological Input --- TOTALLY
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Date: Wed, 7 May 2025 09:56:17 -0500
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On 5/7/2025 9:22 AM, Richard Heathfield wrote:
> On 07/05/2025 14:22, olcott wrote:
>> On 5/7/2025 1:18 AM, Richard Heathfield wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>> There's also an important difference between claiming that Mike's 
>>> claim is counter-factual and /proving/ that his claim is counter- 
>>> factual. 
>>
>> int DD()
>> {
>>    int Halt_Status = HHH(DD);
>>    if (Halt_Status)
>>      HERE: goto HERE;
>>    return Halt_Status;
>> }
> 
> Yeah, you keep posting that, as if it had some kind of persuasive power.
> 
> It doesn't.
> 

Every sufficiently competent C program has agreed.
The DD correctly simulated by HHH cannot possibly
reach its own "return" instruction.

If you are totally clueless about programming you
won't get this.

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