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Employee C: we need to discuss the arbitrary part.

I think most real-world business processes can be proven to halt, assuming inputs are finite.

(When was the last time you wrote a while or repeat until loop, or a recursive function that didn’t iterate over an input?




> (When was the last time you wrote a while or repeat until loop, or a recursive function that didn’t iterate over an input?

Iterating until a convergence criteria is met is fairly common in numerical calculations.

It's also fairly common when dealing with graphs that may not have a beginning or an end in a conventional sense. PageRank does both of these things, for example.




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