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Re: Just for fun: Shortest InputForm to achieve a given Kernel error

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• Subject: [mg82135] Re: Just for fun: Shortest InputForm to achieve a given Kernel error
• From: Szabolcs HorvÃt <szhorvat at gmail.com>
• Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 03:46:45 -0400 (EDT)
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Two more solutions:

å??æ­£å?? wrote:
> I have found 2 answers after some try.
> 
> For General::ovfl: 9^99!
> For $IterationLimit::itlim: #0@# &@1
> 
> On 10/10/07, Andrew Moylan <andrew.j.moylan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "1/0" is a string of length 3 which, when interpreted as InputForm (in a
>> clean Kernel), generates a Power::infy error:
>>
>> ToExpression["1/0", InputForm];
>>>> Power::infy: Infinite expression 1/0 encountered.
>> I think this is the shortest string with this property.
>>
>> Here are some other errors and the lengths of the shortest strings I can
>> find to generate them:
>>
>> $RecursionLimit::reclim: Recursion depth of 256 exceeded.
>> Input length: 4

a=2a

>>
>> General::ovfl: Overflow occurred in computation.
>> Input length: 5
>>
>> (Kernel running out of memory)
>> Input length: 5
>>

a=a@a

>> General::unfl: Underflow occurred in computation.
>> Input length: 6
>>
>> $IterationLimit::itlim: Iteration limit of 4096 exceeded.
>> Input length: 7
>>
>> Can you figure out how to generate those errors with input strings of that
>> length? Can you find any *shorter* solutions?
>>

-- 
Szabolcs

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  • Just for fun: Shortest InputForm to achieve a given Kernel error
    • From: "Andrew Moylan" <andrew.j.moylan@gmail.com>