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Decius comments on Humans can drive cars - Less Wrong Discussion

33 Post author: Apprentice 30 January 2014 11:55AM

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Comment author: Decius 31 January 2014 01:26:12AM 2 points [-]

For applications of fewer than 300 LOC, "Fewer than one defect expected" certainly meets a loose definition of "Bug-free".

As an example of a program with no defects, I put forth the Overpower Scram Logic for a particular pressurized water reactor. It runs on specialized hardware which can be diagrammed fully in the documentation, but is normally shown as a 'black box' with several digital and one analog input, and one digital output.