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:: The "loop over every integer" requirement is also not practical to implement. 4 billion lines (on a 32 bit machine) might be doable, in terms of time to display -- I am not sure if anyone has the patience to sit through a display of 4 billion lines, but hypothetically speaking a reasonably fast machine could complete this task. However, on a 64 bit machine, you will die of old age before the task completes. And, in my opinion, any task which requires the programmer be dead before the task completes is a bad task. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 20:04, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
:::Be careful with your modifiers. We have plenty of good tasks that run for "a really long time"/"forever". [[Lucas-Lehmer test]] and [[Loops/Infinite]] are good examples. In any case, if the range were smaller I would still call it a duplicate. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 20:10, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
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