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Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

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Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

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Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16.
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The editor in chief of this blog was born in 2004. She uses the 1997 window manager, *Enlightenment E16*, daily. In this article, I describe the process of fixing a show-stopping, rare bug that dates back to 2006 in the codebase. Surprisingly, the issue has roots in a faulty implementation of Newton's algorithm!

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