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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:50:36 -0500
From: Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com>
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On 07/19/12 13:28, Chris Angelico wrote:
> 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?

Just putting a maximum bound on the problem, providing a time-frame
in which I can be fairly certain that the program will have
terminated. :-)

-tkc