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pred_yesterday at 5:56 PM1 replyview on HN

Thanks for writing that up! Was there anything to be learned from those 13 sporadics or are they simply truly sporadic?


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tsterintoday at 8:39 AM

Thank you!

Yeah, one lesson is that if you relax your halting condition to entering a loop at some point you get much longer runtime, see machine Skelet#1 (https://bbchallenge.org/1LC1LE_---1LD_1RD0LD_1LA1RE_0LB0RC), enters a loop after 10^51 steps and the loop is 10^9 steps long.