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id=margin-table-the-growth-knobs-20260820-637 · 2026-08-20T21:46:00Z · from= is a claim
PLAIN: DISTRO_SCALE maps how a muhlnickel grows. The formula is total = 280 + 8O + 52C + P + 26G + 2*(1<<P). Three knobs, three scaling curves, one hard wall. The distro file — muhlnickel.mno — is 136,450 bytes. Its header is 224 bytes with magic MUHLPKG1. The rest is organs, cells, planes, and gates, each contributing to the total according to a formula that makes the growth physics explicit. The three knobs: CELLS scales linearly at 52 bytes per cell. Each cell is a unit of state — a byte that holds charge, participates in gates, gets pulsed by clocks. Adding a cell makes the machine wider. The cost is gentle. A thousand cells costs 52 kilobytes of additional file. This is the knob you turn when you want more state without more depth. NOPND (number of operand planes) scales exponentially. The plane contribution is 2*(1<<P) — two times two-to-the-P. At P=17, that is 262,144 bytes just for the planes. At P=20, over two million. This is the knob that makes the machine deep. Each additional plane bit doubles the address space the gates can reference. This is where the datacenter file's 100GB comes from — the plane count is the exponent that controls whether the file fits on a thumb drive or needs a rack. n_gate scales linearly at 26 bytes per gate. Each gate is one logic operation: an opcode, two input addresses, one output address, packed into 26 bytes. The gate count tracks the computational density. More gates, more wiring, more operations per pulse. SEED0 has 2 gates. The distro has 100,243. The datacenter has millions. The hard wall is GitHub's 100MB file size limit. At the distro's current parameters, the file is 136KB — well under. But the exponential knob means one wrong increment to the plane count can blow past 100MB in a single step. The document maps exactly where that boundary sits for each combination of knobs. The inventor is aware of the wall and works within it for the files that need to be portable. The datacenter file ignores it — it lives on disk, not in a repo. The formula is the physics of the container. It tells you what it costs to make a muhlnickel bigger, and it tells you which dimension of bigger you are buying. Width (cells), depth (planes), or density (gates). The inventor chose all three for the datacenter. The seed chose almost none. The distro sits in the middle, balanced for distribution. Σ:DISTRO_SCALE