Troll-carny hits town [Was: What is the Result from Invoking this Halt Function?]

From: >parr\(*> (LauryKing_at_BTInternetnospam.com)
Date: 08/22/04 

Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 23:07:01 +0000 (UTC)

"Owen Jacobson" <angstrom@lionsanctuary.net> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.08.21.04.18.42.53355@lionsanctuary.net...
| On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 03:11:41 +0000, Peter Olcott wrote:
| > I know that it does not halt in this case, and the answer is very
easy.
| > I will let you think about it for awhile, and answer on your next
reply,
| > if you haven't yet figured it out by then.
|
| Does it halt if i, j, and k are, instead of fixed-size ints (for
which we
| can simply exhaustivly test all values for any give size of an
int), some
| suitable bignum type that can represent arbitrarily-large numbers
at the
| expense of increasing memory usage?

Oh dear, Owen! One day you will realise that Peter is just toying
with people like you. "Roll up! Roll up!" he cries. "Place your
bets on my wheel which has two numbers '0' and '1'. See how big '1'
is, and see how small '0' is. How can you lose."

And the punters place their little bets, again and again, and wonder
why never win.

Because there's a Troll in charge. 

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)>==ss$$%PARR(º>   Parr

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