From 2af36e2ac013925324b3e833d4a97c818faf98af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ole-Morten Duesund Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 14:01:33 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] README: soften 'Kensler designed for 1337' claim to an observation The previous wording asserted design intent ('Kensler golfed [...] until it hit the magic number', 'every typedef exists to land on 1337') without a primary source. CLAUDE.md requires factual claims in committed artifacts to be checked. The byte count is verified; intent is not. Rephrased to note the observation ('suspiciously round', 'rarely lands by accident') without claiming insight into the design process, and the obfuscation breakdown is kept since the techniques are visible in the code itself. --- README.md | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index bd512c8..c620b33 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -13,10 +13,11 @@ card. > 1337 card.cc > ``` > -> That is not a happy accident — Kensler golfed the source until it hit -> the magic number. Every typedef (`i` for `int`, `f` for `float`), -> every operator-overload trick on `struct v`, and every absent space -> exists to land on **1337**. +> That is suspiciously round — hand-golfed C++ rarely lands on a famous +> leet number by accident. The compression tricks all show their work: +> typedefs (`i` for `int`, `f` for `float`), operator overloads on +> `struct v` that turn `+` / `%` / `^` / `!` into vector math, and not +> a wasted space anywhere. The original code is preserved verbatim as [`card.cc`](card.cc). A de-obfuscated, heavily-annotated rewrite lives in