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2026 25

  1. Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo
  2. Recent addenda to articles 202609: Errors, omissions, and retractions
  3. O
  4. L-systems generate weevils, pizza toppings, and matriarchal lineages
  5. The road to epsilon-zero: “Shortlex” isn't actually a single order
  6. Other articles in category /math/ordinals
  7. Noting another house repair chore victory
  8. Work diary victory
  9. George Orwell's essay on the atomic bomb anticipates Nineteen Eighty-Four
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  11. The road to epsilon-zero: Shortlex order also orders sequences of numbers
  12. The road to epsilon-zero: Productive programs and well-founded orders
  13. There are two kinds of theorems
  14. The road to epsilon-zero: Coin-moving games with no coins
  15. Seven books I keep close because I love them
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  17. Infinite Nim as a coin-moving game
  18. Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals
  19. Ordinals as nim-heaps
  20. Ordinal numbers and basic set theory
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2025 7

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  4. Peano's original description of the Peano numbers
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  6. Math SE
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2024 8

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2023 11

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2022 13

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  2. Haskell
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  5. a previous article on a closely related topic
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2021 15

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  3. Wiener's paper inventing the ordered pair
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  6. an interesting replacement for the usual engineering interview process
  7. Schönfinkel's paper about the SKI-calculus
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  11. “soup-guzzling pie-muncher”
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2020 13

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  9. I wrote about that in some detail
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2019 12

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  4. Other articles in category /prog/git
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2018 13

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  6. Perl
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2017 13

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  7. I observed a while back
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2016 8

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2015 10

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2014 8

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  2. a long whiny blog article about putting up some shelves in the bathroom
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2013 4

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2012 5

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2011 4

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  3. the toilet auger
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2010 5

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2009 8

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2008 10

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2007 12

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2006 12

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  11. many of the symbols we still use
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2005 3

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