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OT: There's a great bit in Neal Stephenson's Anathem where these monk-like scientists are made to copy out subtly wrong mathematics and scientific proofs as a punishment.

AltDragonBox could be exactly that -- day and night cancel, except for symbols when its constellation is rising, in which case they divide, except for odd numbered Fridays in a leap year. Oh, and do it with numbers instead of day/night symbols.



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