> If you think that people can routinely detect infinite loops, then > perhaps you would care to tell me whether this is an infinite loop or not: > > i = 1 > while not is_perfect(i): > i += 2 > print "odd perfect number discovered" > > > where is_perfect() returns True if the integer argument is perfect, and > False otherwise.
Sure it terminates...If you don't run out of RAM to represent the number "i" in question, there's also this "heat death of the universe" limit I keep hearing about ;-) -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
