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From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.theory
Subject: Re: Halting Problem: What Constitutes Pathological Input
Date: Thu, 8 May 2025 09:11:54 +0100
Organization: Fix this later
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On 08/05/2025 09:06, Fred. Zwarts wrote:
> Is it over your head that introducing or removing the code to 
> abort makes the program fundamentally different?

Nonsense! I introduced a slight change (just a line or two) to 
HHH, and it now plays an excellent game of Quake. Modulo the 
system() call, it's still basically the same program.

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