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Now that I think about it, I think this task is covered by Non-decimal radices/Output. I know there's no "loop forever" in that task, but I think it covers the meat of this task (and more). Thoughts? --Mwn3d 03:47, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Hmm... Seems like it. The "loop over every integer" bit isn't completely trivial, but yeah, it's probably not enough to differentiate this. MagiMaster 03:50, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

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. --Rdm 20:04, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

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	: Hmm... Seems like it. The "loop over every integer" bit isn't completely trivial, but yeah, it's probably not enough to differentiate this. [[User:MagiMaster\|MagiMaster]] 03:50, 6 June 2011 (UTC)		: Hmm... Seems like it. The "loop over every integer" bit isn't completely trivial, but yeah, it's probably not enough to differentiate this. [[User:MagiMaster\|MagiMaster]] 03:50, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

			:: 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)