Obligatory mention of the novel [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schild’s_Ladder](Schild’s Ladder) by Greg Egan.

Such a scenario would be interesting indeed.

Why is German “doubly derived” from Swiss German?

And why prefix German with “standard” when this is not done for other languages?

You can have as many C-F bonds as you want i a single molecule, but not in a chain, because F will be connected to only a single C.

a chain of incredibly strong carbon-fluorine bonds

Pedantic mode: The longest chain of C-F bonds you can have has length two.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl_sulfoxide

for the less-scientific-but-still-want-the-correct-wikipedia-article among us

I think that’s only used in Chinese and Japanese, so that °C occupies as much space as a Chinese/Japanese character.

Everybody knows you can factorize out the sum in the denominator because it doesn’t depend on j (It’s just a normalization factor)