From: Arets Paeglis (astronfo@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 13 2009 - 20:57:29 MDT
Mentioning return to "a prior point" does not imply anything about
returning to the initial state.
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:50 AM, John K Clark <johnkclark@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 "Bradley Thomas" <brad36@gmail.com said:
>
>> *My point is that any real algorithm in any real computer is
>> automatically in an infinite loop.
>> In the sense that it has to return to a prior state sooner or later
>
> What on earth are you talking about? You start the Microsoft Word
> program and write a novel with. When you are finished the program does
> not "have" to return to the original state it was in before you started
> writing, as a matter of fact I think you'd be a little annoyed at
> Microsoft if it did.
>
> John K Clark
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