Inspiration

I came to this Hackathon to support my friends in the SMU CS club, as well as to support my lovely boyfriend who is the president of this club. I knew I wanted to do something that reminded me of my love of CS while having no academic ties to it. Why not have fun, and unoptimize one of the most simple projects known to CS majors? I also wanted to challenge myself by using one of the fastest languages known to man.

Constraints

Every piece of code has to contribute to somehow printing hello world (i.e. can't do random calculations to increase time). In this case, I am not counting pre-processing statements as executable code. Other than that, any other unoptimizations are fair game.
I am using one of the fastest languages just to add an extra challenge.
As long as the program would finish in theory given infinite time, I am counting it.

What it does

It should eventually print out "Hello World!". The universe will probably die before it ever achieves that though.

How we built it

Hopes, dreams, the programming language c, and CLion.

How to run it

You can either clone the repo, and run the project from your IDE of choice (so long as you have a c compiler and cmake installed). Or, you can just download the .c file, and run it either on your favorite IDE, or on an online IDE if you're about that life.

Challenges we ran into

I forgot some of the formatting flags for C print statements because I haven't worked with C since Operating Systems.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I cannot believe I got one attempt at printing "Hello World!" to take on average 32.17 seconds. As seen in my IEEE formatted paper, statistically, the time it would take for this program to run successfully would be 4.858 * 10^17 years (see paper for calculations). That is well beyond my lifetime. and the lifetime of the known universe probably.