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This was very satisfying. The format works well, and makes sure you as reader are doing at least a minimum amount of thinking about the topics being presented. Even the pops and dings (if you have sound on) are fun :) This seems like a good format, and I see some other submissions from the site earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=tigyog.app

My only quibble with this one is with step 19 ("hangIf3") which relies on "infinity is not considered even" — that is a distraction IMO, and if I understand correctly (have not thought about this carefully) the example could be replaced with something that involves an actual odd number.

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Oh hi, author here! I tend to agree on `hangIf3`. I have a habit of mixing in other kinds of puzzles. Sometimes they're fun, but sometimes they're irrelevant to the main point ... I'll rethink this one.

p.s. thanks for the compliments on the format! If you (or anyone else) wants to create tutorials in this format, https://tigyog.app/ is a full platform for that! WYSIWYG editor and all :-)

Could it use more readable identifiers like `hang•if•3`?

This stay valid js without mixed case found in usual code in the wild sticking to ascii. To my mind it feels like avoidable visual clutter, all the more in didactic work.

Apart from that, it was nicely done all the way, congratulations and thanks for the pleasing moment.

It really is fantastic :)

> My only quibble with this one is with step 19 ("hangIf3") which relies on "infinity is not considered even" — that is a distraction IMO, and if I understand correctly (have not thought about this carefully) the example could be replaced with something that involves an actual odd number.

Indeed, you could just replace haltIf3or7 by haltIf3or5or7 (or whatever). (And, of course, whether or not infinity is considered even cannot be deduced from the information given, so relying on this technicality here I'd argue is beyond distracting and into the realm of so underspecified that it might be wrong. Or we could raise the same objection mentioned earlier, that it's not specified what kind of object `n` is, and numeric types often have only finitely many inhabitants ….)

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