Re: Re: why no result & no error from this recursion
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- Subject: [mg82463] Re: [mg82431] Re: [mg82403] why no result & no error from this recursion
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:15:30 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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The evaluation ended rather quickly, and the front end was immediately
ready for the next input.
But I've now verified that the kernel definitely quit. At least that's
what I surmise by going to Evaluation -> Quit Kernel and seeing that the
Local kernel was grayed out, indicating it was no longer running.
Sseziwa Mukasa wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2007, at 5:04 AM, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
>
>> Why does the following recursion produce neither a result nor an error
>> message -- nor a system crash?
>>
>> Block[{$RecursionLimit=50002}, (If[#<1, "", "." <> #0[# - 1]] &)
>> [50000]]
>>
>> I even tried setting $RecursionLimit=Infinity, but no change.
>>
>> I presume this is just bumping up against a hardware/OS limit, so I'm
>> surprised to get no error message and no crash.
>
> My guess is that the front end is having problems formatting 50000
> '.' for display. I've noticed sometimes that calculations that
> generate long strings on output can appear to have hung but the
> kernel has not crashed and the front end is unresponsive.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ssezi
>
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