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That's interesting. I can't tell if you're joking or not (I'm pretty sure the ability to loop is a requirement for Turing-completeness).

Do you mean like Lisp which favors recursive function (or lambda calculus which uses the Y-combinator :)?

Jakob Nielson argues that, specifically in usability testing, 5 people gives you a majority of your flaws but not the entire picture - where ~15 people would give you that. That is to say, more is better but there is diminishing returns. Given this, he argues that rather then expending resources to gather the entire picture for a single iteration, it's even better to test 3 sets of 5 people with design improvements between each set.

I think this argument is slightly different than just saying 5 people is enough for any sort of study. I still would have liked to seen more people. Or at least additional studies with modifications to inspect or confirm specific aspects of their findings.

I actually approve this argument. My personal experience also shows that usability testing can be done with very few people at a time, over many iterations. Obviously, this is not a universal rule. It's useful for practical usability testing, but not for testing all cognitive processes. Perhaps, if the variations are small enough, it may be sufficient.

Can't believe I missed that, but you're entirely correct, that second %d doesn't map to anything.

Guess loops aren't the source of ALL evil.