• New twist. Does Olcott now think DD halts? Or doesn't he?

    From Richard Heathfield@21:1/5 to olcott on Tue Aug 26 20:44:29 2025
    On 26/08/2025 20:00, olcott wrote:
    On 8/26/2025 12:49 PM, Richard Heathfield wrote:

    <snip>


    You have already established that HHH returns 0


    to claim that DDD never halts.

    Liar

    I'm sorry? Are you now saying DDD halts?

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  • From Richard Heathfield@21:1/5 to dbush on Tue Aug 26 21:00:01 2025
    On 26/08/2025 20:57, dbush wrote:
    On 8/26/2025 3:44 PM, Richard Heathfield wrote:
    On 26/08/2025 20:00, olcott wrote:
    On 8/26/2025 12:49 PM, Richard Heathfield wrote:

    <snip>


    You have already established that HHH returns 0


    to claim that DDD never halts.

    Liar

    I'm sorry? Are you now saying DDD halts?


    He's referring to his weasel-word phrase "DD emulated by HHH
    according to the semantics of the x86 language".

    So does he think DD halts or doesn't he?

    And why do I get the feeling that the right answer to that
    question is "no"?

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  • From Richard Heathfield@21:1/5 to dbush on Tue Aug 26 21:48:17 2025
    On 26/08/2025 21:03, dbush wrote:
    On 8/26/2025 4:00 PM, Richard Heathfield wrote:
    On 26/08/2025 20:57, dbush wrote:
    On 8/26/2025 3:44 PM, Richard Heathfield wrote:
    On 26/08/2025 20:00, olcott wrote:
    On 8/26/2025 12:49 PM, Richard Heathfield wrote:

    <snip>


    You have already established that HHH returns 0


    to claim that DDD never halts.

    Liar

    I'm sorry? Are you now saying DDD halts?


    He's referring to his weasel-word phrase "DD emulated by HHH
    according to the semantics of the x86 language".

    So does he think DD halts or doesn't he?

    And why do I get the feeling that the right answer to that
    question is "no"?


    He thinks that DD (as is) halts, but if you were to replace the
    code of HHH with a pure simulator then the resulting DD would not
    halt, so based on that he's claiming HHH(DD)==0 correct.

    This is of course nonsense.

    So he knows it halts but thinks it doesn't? No, wait, he /thinks/
    it halts but says it doesn't, in case he can find some jump leads
    from somewhere? He's going to need more than a jump-start,
    because he's seven gaskets, three brake pads, a cylinder head,
    seven rocker arms, a gudgeon pin, an accelerator, a camshaft, two
    passenger doors, a distributor, a handbrake, a boot lid, a roof
    panel, two front wings, a cylinder block, a radiator, a
    carburettor, three wheels, a cigarette lighter, a crankshaft,
    four tyres, four pistons, a bonnet, a fuel cap, a footwell mat, a
    fan belt, a left sills, two wheel arch liners, a tyre iron, eight
    valve springs, a petrol tank, a distributor cap, a driver's door,
    two connecting rods, three spark plugs, a gearbox, three hubcaps,
    a clutch, a brake, a speedometer, front and rear bumper bars,
    eleven wheel nuts, four exhaust valves, front and rear valances,
    four inlet valves, an ignition key, and seventeen chewing gum
    wrappers short of a car.

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