Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: dbush Newsgroups: comp.theory Subject: Re: DD specifies non-terminating behavior to HHH --- RECURSIVE CHAIN --- Saving Democracy Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 21:18:32 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 73 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 03:18:32 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9eeafc121d03898926ad9caf9449da30"; logging-data="1598084"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+z756pkon2yhd9aAgDvPdn" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:MDe/f8OYdU1uwC6XKAe+IHl4QU8= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 4313 On 2/24/2025 9:15 PM, olcott wrote: > On 2/24/2025 8:04 PM, dbush wrote: >> On 2/24/2025 8:59 PM, olcott wrote: >>> On 2/24/2025 7:51 PM, dbush wrote: >>>> On 2/24/2025 8:47 PM, olcott wrote: >>>>> On 2/24/2025 7:26 PM, dbush wrote: >>>>>> On 2/24/2025 8:12 PM, olcott wrote: >>>>>>> On 2/24/2025 6:06 PM, dbush wrote: >>>>>>>> On 2/24/2025 6:16 PM, olcott wrote: >>>>>>>>> On 2/24/2025 3:47 PM, dbush wrote: >>>>>>>>>> On 2/24/2025 4:26 PM, olcott wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> HHH that aborts its simulation and a purely >>>>>>>>> hypothetical (imaginary never implemented) >>>>>>>>> HHH that never aborts its simulation. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Same thing.  F aborts its (admittedly poor) simulation by >>>>>>>> breaking out of a recursive chain, and a hypothetical F that >>>>>>>> performs a correct unaborted simulation. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The simple fact that the hypothetical HHH would never >>>>>>> terminate conclusively proves that DD specifies behavior >>>>>>> that cannot possibly terminate normally. >>>>>> >>>>>> And the simple fact that the hypothetical F would never terminate >>>>>> conclusively proves that no_numbers_greater_than_10 specifies >>>>>> behavior that cannot possibly terminate normally. >>>>>> >>>>>> Agreed? >>>>> >>>>> I will not discuss your code. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I'll let you respond to yourself here: >>>> >>>> On 11/10/2024 11:41 PM, olcott wrote: >>>>  > That is a dishonest dodge. An honest rebuttal would explain >>>>  > all of the details of how I am incorrect. You can't do that >>>>  > because I am correct. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Your code is not isomorphic to my code thus an >>> irrelevant change of subject away from the point. >>> >>> >> >> >> That is counter-factual. >> >> According to you, the behavior of DD correctly simulated by HHH is >> defined by this code: >> >> int HHH(ptr P) >> { >>      /* replace all code with an unconditional simulator */ >> } >> > > I already corrected you on this misunderstanding. > HHH has two versions the real one and the imaginary > on that never aborts the simulation of its input. > > > And F has two versions, a real one and the imaginary one that never aborts the simulation of its input.