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Non-terminating programs
Authored by: feldegast on Monday, November 26 2012 @ 06:27 AM EST
I recall that PolR said that non-terminating programs are in
fact a type of algorithm, i forget which type but it was
discussed in one of his articles or comments thereto

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So a change in logic changes whether it's an alogrithm or not?
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 27 2012 @ 01:59 PM EST

I author:

    X=FALSE
    while X != TRUE loop
      print "hello world"
      X=TRUE
    end loop
Perhaps we can agree that's an alogrithm, perhaps not. I say it is! Now I change it and remove one line of code:
    X=FALSE
    while X != TRUE loop
      print "hello world"
    end loop
Now it suddenly ceases to be an alogrithm?

Interesting argument. One I'll never agree with, but interesting.

RAS

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