> BBM is pulling in vast audiences, ... estimated 64.7 million visits per month. According to a recent ranking, that would make it one of the 30 most trafficked English-language media enterprises on the web, with a total digital readership substantially higher than that of NPR, narrowly besting CBS News and Forbes, and just slightly behind the Washington Post... [but run by a] skeleton crew of about a dozen employees... more than 50 fake personas for nonexistent writers

BBM apparently took down the 50 fake personas in 2024 when it was challenged by reporters.

CFMEU sounded like some EU thing, but it's not, it's Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU), one of Australia's largest blue-collar trade unions.

inverse Gamma function of Avogadro's number (6.02 × 10²³) is ~ 24.99056

Sure, but "23.99067408! is Avogadro's number" is both harder to remember and less cool than "24! is almost Avogadro's number".

Sure. I wasn't disagreeing with you; just curious how close the coincidence was.

(I just undead'ed this comment; can't see why it was downvoted.)

I think you mean "using base C without any arbitrary-precision library (e.g. GMP)" . All that illustrates is that Lisp has built-in support for arbitrary-precision arithmetic, whereas C doesn't. Otherwise, how is this surprising, and what is the reason for the performance difference?

This is restating Stirling's approximation, which has been known for three centuries (1730, de Moivre 1721). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling%27s_approximation

Stirling’s approximation is mentioned in the article.

I know that, that was my point. I'm saying I don't see much point in restating it without adding something; it's been known for 300 years.

Compare to how different countries' justice systems treat really high quality money forgers.

no-true-Scotsman...

Why?

How much formal math background is required? Undergrad/graduate/PhD/...? For one person on each team or everyone?