@johndcook I regret I have but one boost to give here -- when I did my PhD, I was hip-deep in this stuff all the time.

My advisor was Dennis Stanton, who is in turn a student of Dick Askey -- both folks are known for always asking "is there a q version?" :)

🧵 3/N, N=3

Oh! And another fun way to look at the dimensionality: for ordinary numbers, we visualize them as being on a line, a single dimension. Can there be two dimensional numbers? Yes -- and they are called...*complex* numbers. Queerness, gender identity, sexual identity, and the ways we […]

🧵 2/N

And indeed, note how the fractions are in the form of a table. A two-dimensional thing! There is an expression here of the need for more dimensions. Having realized that, you can then work through the earlier reasoning and go beyond two dimensions. Three. Four. Or...who knows how many? […]

@thias actually, emacs doesn't -- when it displays the characters, it does it correctly, using the variant selectors. But when you put point at the character and ask what its codepoint is, emacs says the same thing for both, which is also correct.

I do see now that M-x describe-char will say […]

@maddemaddigger it's a struggle, but also a delightful situation: you can submit your sequence and be the discoverer-of-record for it!

...and what's interesting about thinking about such esoteric text editor behavior is that one realizes many of those ideas could be implemented in emacs.

#emacs #esolang #esoeditor

Thinking about esoteric programming languages inspired me to imagine...esoteric text editors!

If you can say "a programming language that [insert some interesting thing]" you can do the same with text editors, right?

A couple I thought of:

A text editor that will only write a file to an […]

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