nokita

Irretrievably hung my phone requiring a hard reset.

Using Chrome on vanilla Android on Samsung.

The second hand isn't running backwards, the numbers run the wrong way.

Have you watched for more than 5 minutes? Each hand jumps from one Division to the next, increasingly flexing in between jumps. It's working fine for me, and obviously for others, so either there's something odd about your setup, or it's just doing something you don't expect.

I think I saw a comment, perhaps 20 years ago, saying that this is an adaptation of a stand up comedy routine. A quick search has failed to confirm or refute this, and regardless of the origin it is (a) very funny, and (b) instructive.

But I suspect it shouldn't be taken as real, even if the lessons one can learn from it certainly are real, and it is all too plausible.

I think it needs to be poly in the number of bits, not just the number, otherwise factoring would be poly, and it isn't.

Where did you see anything about the cause of death?

Babbage's analytical engine comes to mind.