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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 22:33:51 -0400
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On 3/11/2025 10:33 PM, olcott wrote:
> On 3/11/2025 9:29 PM, Richard Heathfield wrote:
>> On 12/03/2025 02:06, 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
>>
>>
>> "THESE ARE THE WORDS ANYONE THAT DODGES THESE WORDS WILL BE TAKEN FOR 
>> A LIAR"?
>>
>> Is that all you've got? Nothing on your function's inability to 
>> correctly decide on whether arbitrary input programs terminate, which 
>> is a ***stipulated*** requirement for the problem.
>>
>> Without that, all you have is loud.
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Look up "infinite". You keep using that word. I do not think it means 
>> what you think it means.
>>
> 
> Replacing the code of HHH with an unconditional simulator and 
> subsequently running HHH(DD) cannot
> possibly f-cking halt no f-cking matter what.
> 

Obviously, so what's the next step?