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Thursday, July 24, 2014
Achievement Unlocked: Construct Infinite Loop in \Latex
Until just now, I never realized that it was possible to construct an infinite loop in \Latex. But it is, and an infinite loop is indeed an understandable outcome of the following text: \newcommand{\lcm}{\mbox{\lcm}}", which I of course obtained via the magic of 'replace all'. It turns out that my \Latex compiler (TeXShop) apparently has an automatic abort for such situations.
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You may also be interested to know that the TeX macro language is Turing-complete. So you could potentially write a paper that disproves the Goldbach conjecture, should it ever compile.
Nice. :)
My PhD supervisor was obsessed with the Goldbach conjecture (in a 'please stay close to your expertise in quantum physics' kind of way).
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