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118 The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program

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Ben Brubaker @ Wired · 09/14/2025 07:00 EDT

The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program

The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so large they're impossible to write out using standard mathematical notation.

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