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Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 04:28:50 +1000
Subject: Re: Encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism
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On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 4:20 AM, Tim Chase
<python.list@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> 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 ;-)

I'd be more worried about the heat death of your computer, it's likely
to be sooner. How many people have access to a computer that'll still
be running in ten years, much less a thousand? And while a thousand
years is extremely large, it still falls pitifully short of
infinity[1], or even the heat death of the universe.

ChrisA
[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2795