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A quine prints a copy of itself, it does not contain a copy of itself. The copy contained in the quine is not executable in its compressed form.
by nils-m-holm 7y ago
A quine prints a copy of itself, it does not contain a copy of itself. The copy contained in the quine is not executable in its compressed form.
- tjhance 7y agoThere is a general theorem that says that for any computation, you can write a program that executes that computation on its own source code. The quine is only a special case.