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// I don't know how this works, but it works, please don't touch it
the most incoherent piece of code you have seen in your life, taken directly from the Book of the Death
The OG blackbox
I had a PhD write that on an algorithm we refined after an all-team (6 member) code review. He quit shortly thereafter. (It wasn't that hard, just a loop unroll on the inner loop.)
Best not to even perceive it.