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A busy beaver maximises some property of the computation model (e.g. execution time, memory usage, output length) subject to the constraint that it must halt.
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If a program terminates and there is no one to see it, does it halt?
JavaScript, 39
(function f(x){for(;x!=++x;)f(x+1)})(0)
Explanation
Since JavaScript does not precisely represent large integers, the loop for(;x!=++x;) terminates once x hits 9007199254740992.
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