Vanilla ice with strawberry sauce, just in fancy

Yes, that’s essencially the church-turing-thesis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church–Turing_thesis

Looks like a fancy guitar hero controller. I like the old design, this is too complicated.

subtracting one from Exponent means halving (when the base is two):

2⁴ = 16 2³ = 8 2² = 4 2¹ = 2 2⁰ = 1

It’s a simple continuation of the pattern and required for mathemarical rules to work.

Except when Type::Method takes a reference, then it doesn’t just work