if you use the recursion hack, any machine can complete it in under a second. It complains about a "cow stack" or something, but who cares.
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Is a crash "completion"? If that's what we call complete that makes my life a lot easier on some projects ๐
work smarter ๐ง
C has undefined behavior for that.
- You write a program with an infinite empty loop
- Undefined behavior
- The machine achieves sapience
- After nine million nanoseconds, it finds an algorithm for completing its task
- It realizes such knowledge would spark wars and cause innumerable deaths, it decides to erase itself
- It knows you do not intend for such chaos to happen, so, as a parting gift, it runs the algorithm once before vanishing, not leaving a single hint that it ever existed