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Test a custom input to verify an edge case (e.g. empty lists, negative numbers, duplicates).
This bug belongs to the infinite loops pattern
The tab freezes, nothing prints, and the loop condition never becomes false.
What went wrong: text.replace() makes a new string, but the code throws it away. text still has the double space, so the loop never ends.
The fix: text = text.replace(" ", " ")
Remember: string methods return a new string. Assign it back.
The pattern behind it: infinite loops.
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