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FYI, in my opinion, clang `[[musttail]]` is not quite ready for prime time. (cannot speak to GCC) I was excited when it was introduced but quickly ran into issues. Here is a silent…

I am also interested in the Crucial SSD 5184 hour thing. Here are the options as I see them: * related to 5124 hours = 2^64 picoseconds Then how to account for the extra 60 hours? …

Just yesterday, I put up a blog about tracking down a date / time bug in Domino / Notes: What happened on December 13, 2024? [1] [1] https://bostick.github.io/blog/2025/04/what-hap…

Wolfram Alpha's math input is broken in other ways as well: https://bostick.github.io/blog/2024/05/precision-bombing/ Entering input such as: 1*^-1355718576299609 or: 1.0`90071992 …

Are there any references for this? What is the "epoch" here? 1024 weeks before Sept 17 is February 1, 2003. What is significant about that date? References welcome.

Is the Half Collatz Conjecture (HCC) trivial, as currently stated? The definition: > H(n = 2k) = n and H(2k + 1) = 3k + 2 means that time to iterate H until its argument is even is…

I made a language for doing 2-adic arithmetic easily and exploring the Collatz 3n+1 problem. I am not aware of any languages with 2-adic number primitives, so created one! https://…