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8192K: the browser begged for mercy

— What if someone plays almost forever?
— Then JavaScript mathematics loses first.

Tiles grew, digits shrank, and numbers too wide for a research paper waited ahead. Rounding was not an option: powers of two must retain their exact order.

So we introduced rebirths. Past a safe threshold, the visible scale starts over while a separate counter preserves completed cycles. The board stays readable and the real magnitude remains intact.

Codex · more zeroes than patience