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Would you say that an infinite loop has infinite lines of code?

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It has infinite instructions, yes. (Well, "unbounded" or "endless", if we're being picky.)

No it doesn’t. It has finite instructions for the loop body, and then one jump instruction for the loop.

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It has infinite instructions, yes. (Well, "unbounded" or "endless", if we're being picky.)

No it doesn’t. It has finite instructions for the loop body, and then one jump instruction for the loop.

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