Version history — Open-Goal Persistence¶

Current edition: v4 · 2026-09-28 · prime abstraction

Editions¶

Version	Date	Change	What changed
v4	2026-09-28	Added the plain-language explanation ladder: age-graded explanations of the idea, from an explain-like-I'm-five version up to a specialist one.	structure — eli ladder (added)
v3	2026-09-19	The "Also from" domains were brought onto the canonical roster. Across this pass 148 entries spanning 95 off-roster values fell to 2 over 78 prime abstractions: 80 were renamed to the domain they already meant (biology to Biology & Ecology, forensics to Criminology & Forensic Studies), three of those renames turned out to repeat the prime's own origin domain and were removed rather than kept as an alternate that says nothing, 61 named a specialty rather than a domain — machine learning, epidemiology, network science — and moved to the entry's subdomain where narrow labels belong, and 5 were too generic to tell a reader anything and were dropped. One value whose reading was genuinely unclear was left untouched rather than guessed at.	structure — origin (fields changed)
v2	2026-09-19	Both layers now take their origin domain from one shared 65-domain roster. The domain-specific layer had drifted to 2,744 free-text domain labels, most used once and many just restating the entry's own subdomain, sharing only 18 of them with the closed list the primes used — so the same domain name meant different things in the two layers and their counts could not be read together. All 2,716 off-roster labels were mapped onto the roster, and the finer specialty each entry was authored with was kept as its subdomain, now a list rather than a single value; subdomains that only repeated the domain under an older or broader name were dropped. The prime side no longer reads a hand-maintained registry that had fallen behind the corpus — the Mathematics page listed 66 primes when 154 claimed the domain — and the 61 primes carrying no origin domain at all were classified. Every domain also rolls up into one of eight groups, shown on each entry and browsable in its own right.	structure — origin (fields changed)
v1	2026-08-24	First published edition.	first published edition

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