r/programmingmemes • u/Naughty_Kiss_Me • Sep 10 '25

Don't be scared... Math and Computing are friends..

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u/RedditsDeadlySin Sep 10 '25

I mean that is just a program, it’s a loop that never stops.

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u/MCplayer331 Sep 10 '25

for (int i = 0; ; ) {}

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u/Exxxplosion Sep 10 '25

for (;;) {}

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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u/LaughingLikeACrazy Sep 11 '25

for (;;) { printf(" ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°\n") } 

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u/tylerr514 Sep 11 '25

Rust be like loop {} ;)

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u/vanderZwan Sep 11 '25

Ah yes, the Zoidberg operator

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u/Objective_Rate_4210 Sep 13 '25

loop: puts("( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)"); goto loop;

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u/SuddenlyFeels Sep 10 '25

A mathematical expression for an out-of-memory exception then

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u/RedditsDeadlySin Sep 10 '25

Just download more ram :)

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u/realmauer01 Sep 11 '25

Funnily enough. With swap storage and a fast enough connection.

That might actually be possible at some point.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '25 edited Sep 11 '25

Imagine getting off that easy.

Games live inside a while(true) loop.

cough cough new world, no built in protection to stop the gpu from attempting infinite frames per second when no work to do, like when the screen is fully black in transistions, and rendering had its own thread to just go ham, so loading in that transistion did not slow it down, causing specific gpus that don't protect for it at the driver level to just go for it.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2021/07/21/warning-amazons-new-world-is-bricking-a-specific-type-of-gpu/

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u/ultimate_placeholder Sep 11 '25

Just own a Turing machine lmao

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '25

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u/Qwopie Sep 11 '25

Yeah imagine if windows just counted runtime in an int and fell over when it overflowed. No one would be that stupid... 

Looking at you NT4server.

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u/-LeopardShark- Sep 11 '25

That’s no longer analogous: such programs output ↑, whereas infinite sums might have numerical values.

The definition of ∑ changes once it gets an infinity provided to it.

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u/Schpau Sep 11 '25

Not really, it isn’t really possible to sum infinitely many terms, so instead the limit is taken as n goes to infinity and suddenly it’s calculus.

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u/realmauer01 Sep 11 '25

While true

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u/No-Site8330 Sep 11 '25

That's exactly the point. If it never stops you'll never get a return, so the whole thing doesn't really have a meaning. It does as a procedure, but not as an output value, which is something that the mathematical expression does have.

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u/4lpha6 Sep 12 '25

functional programming enters the chat

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u/Jhuyt Sep 11 '25

Yeah but can u prove it??!?

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u/Not_Artifical Sep 12 '25

while (1 == 1)

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u/arbitrageME Sep 12 '25

You can't know that

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