position-column
Drawn at its defaults, in where in its rung a stem was grown. It takes no options at all, so every essay calling it gets this exact drawing.
Called by 4 essays
the blast radius of changing it
Where a handover sits
Inside every rung there is a rise at which the two contact steps change places, so that the shorter hop belongs to the other family below it. Six of the eight rungs on this ladder have one, each has exactly one, and every one of them sits in the coarse half.
Where the angle comes fromThe column that cost no stems
Every table in this collection records the rise a stem was grown at. None records where inside its own rung that rise sat, and the fraction turns out to be computable from numbers already written down — which makes it the cheapest column anybody here has ever added and the one that changes the most about how the tables read.
Where the angle comes fromThe side the census sat on
Eight of the ten lattices the ablation census wrecks at were grown past their rung's handover, one before it, and one so close that the ordering it quotes differs by parts in a thousand. A reading scored over the step ordering was therefore scored against a quantity the census was nearly holding fixed.
Where the angle comes fromThe organ that moved furthest
A reading that works on nine of thirty rows needs a reference organ, and the obvious repair is to measure one rather than to choose it. Measured, the disturbance turns out to have no far edge at all, so there is no organ that moved furthest in any sense the reading can use — and the generalisation that does work needs no reference organ.