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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>infinite loop</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../I.html" title="I"/><link rel="previous" href="infinite.html" title="infinite"/><link rel="next" href="Infinite-Monkey-Theorem.html" title="Infinite-Monkey Theorem"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">infinite loop</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="infinite.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">I</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Infinite-Monkey-Theorem.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="infinite-loop"/><dt xmlns="" id="infinite-loop"><b>infinite loop</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> One that never terminates (that is, the machine
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<a href="../S/spin.html"><i class="glossterm">spin</i></a>s or <a href="../B/buzz.html"><i class="glossterm">buzz</i></a>es forever and
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goes <a href="../C/catatonic.html"><i class="glossterm">catatonic</i></a>). There is a standard joke that has
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been made about each generation's exemplar of the ultra-fast machine:
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“<span class="quote">The Cray-3 is so fast it can execute an infinite loop in under 2
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seconds!</span>”</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="infinite.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../I.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Infinite-Monkey-Theorem.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">infinite </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Infinite-Monkey Theorem</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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