This isn&#x27;t about &quot;word-sized chunks of data made of bits, grinding through a Von Neumann machine&quot;. It&#x27;s about math and software engineering.<p>If this article is hard to understand, that&#x27;s probably because it&#x27;s part 14 of a series. Read the first 13 parts; Bartosz&#x27;s writing is very clear when you have the proper context.