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| bruce2359 |
 Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 5:22 am Post subject: Iteration vs. looping |
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I seem to wake up each morning pondering iteration vs. looping. Which is it?
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| exerk |
| Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 10:41 am Post subject: |
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Do you just want to keep doing it again, or go back to the beginning?
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| bruce2359 |
| Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 11:51 am Post subject: |
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Neither, actually.
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| tczielke |
| Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 1:01 pm Post subject: |
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Is this a programming question, or more of an existential covid-19 haze that we all seem to be experiencing question? 
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| bruce2359 |
| Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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The latter.
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| PeterPotkay |
| Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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Bill Murray knows the feeling.
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| bruce2359 |
| Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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Which was it? Iteration or looping?
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| gbaddeley |
| Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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An iteration uses information from the previous repetition.
Looping doesn't really have any semantic constraints.
Does Enumeration bother you?
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| PaulClarke |
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Most of life is a loop. The concerning thing is when you go to sleep and dream of falling asleep. Then you are in recursion which is much more difficult to get out of
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| gbaddeley |
| Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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| PaulClarke wrote: |
| Most of life is a loop. The concerning thing is when you go to sleep and dream of falling asleep. Then you are in recursion which is much more difficult to get out of |
That reminds me of asking Siri "What is Inception about?"
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| bruce2359 |
| Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2020 4:53 am Post subject: |
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| gbaddeley wrote: |
An iteration uses information from the previous repetition.
Looping doesn't really have any semantic constraints.
Does Enumeration bother you? |
Not until you mentioned it.
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| bruce2359 |
| Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2020 4:57 am Post subject: |
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| gbaddeley wrote: |
| PaulClarke wrote: |
| Most of life is a loop. The concerning thing is when you go to sleep and dream of falling asleep. Then you are in recursion which is much more difficult to get out of |
That reminds me of asking Siri "What is Inception about?" |
When I asked, 148 minutes.
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2020 5:08 am Post subject: |
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I can do no better than repeat the comments of a wise man:
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| most people think of time as a series of discrete events moving from cause to effect from the past to the future. In fact, from a non-subjective, non-dimensional perspective, it's all just a big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey |
So it is, in fact, an enumerated iteration and an enumerated loop, both within a non-linear construct forming a flexible boundary that acts both as a reference point for your consciousness ("morning") while adding a pseudo-real structure to that consciousness's journey through existence.
Unless I've misunderstood and we are, as my most worthy associate points out, trapped in a Bill Murray movie.
Who had "giant Stay-Puffed Marshmallow Man" for October?
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