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by sargstuff 1194 days ago
Conjecture on why 194 bits[0] and not 192 bits[1]:

a) CS off by one error (started bit count at 1 instead of 0 )

b) Included 'NIL' as a bit.

[0] https://xtao.org/blog/last-intro.html

[1] https://tromp.github.io/cl/LC.pdf
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sargstuff 1193 days ago
Snarky conjecture: 7bit ascii in-ram version of "λm.m(λx.x)(λx.x)" is mxx which if hardware supports bit addressing only uses 21 bits. Smallest ascii lisp is 14bits though.
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