Posts Tagged ‘Buddha’

The Buddha Function

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
function contemplate(karma) {

  if (karma<uint.MAX_VALUE) {
    contemplate(karma+1);
    trace("Hello Buddha");
  }
}
contemplate(1);

Incidentally, as a matter of scientific rigor, I ran this function in Flash and unsurprisingly, I got an stack overflow error pretty quickly. After a little testing, it seems Flash loses its state of Karma after precisely 2729 iterations.

And even more curious, 27-29 was also the score in the 2009 Rugby Union match between Stade Francais and Bath that effectively ended their Heineken Cup hopes. Spooky.